All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.”

“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”

“She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.”

“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.”

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

“Purity of heart is what enables us to see.”

“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”

“Why do relationships have to be so complicated?”

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“Faith is believing in something you know isn’t true.”

“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”

“There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.”

“She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart—- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.–City of Ember–”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”