All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.”

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

“Interviewer: Didn’t Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn’t want to believe. he wanted to know.”

“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”

“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”

“Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.”

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

“The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You’re asked an unexpected question, you don’t even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.”

“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”