Truth Quotes

"Either you repeat conventional doctrines without thought, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "I don't think people listen to my stuff. They just listen to the bullshit." "Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life" "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot." "Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always allow itself to be trifled with?" "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies" "Jesters do oft prove prophets." "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation" "In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." "Truth is disputable, not taste. What exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment" "The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth." "Reality is always neutral, it just is." "It is the clash of judgments that produces the spark of truth." "The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. We must reclaim the truth about our lovability, divinity, and creativity." "The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."