All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“A myth… is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.”

“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn’t tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. …It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can’t give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can’t help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.”

“I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.”

“Things difficult – almost to impossibility – can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.”

“The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.”

“Face the truth or the truth will face you!”

“People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.”

“It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.”

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

“He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.”

“Until you guys own your own souls you don’t own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I’m sure you won’t do him more harm than you’ll do the truth good. Or until I’m hauled before somebody that can make me talk.”

“Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.”

“Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.”