No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.
If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don't know, because the truth is, under President [Barack] Obama we've lost control of things that we used to have control over.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?
