Heavenly comfort, rather, is truth, which blows away human fantasies that we can live forever, control everything, or fake our lives before God.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.
In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.
Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me. . . Im not okay. . . Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay
We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.
The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
It is always more valuable to report the truth.
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.