“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
“What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is,… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards.… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“People don't know how to hear a lie. Even people who are trained to hear the truth. Even professionals. Especially professionals. Especially… — H.G. Beverly Copy Share Image
“And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Riding a motorcycle is velocity as poetry. The fine balance between elegant agility and fatal fall is a kind of truth, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content… — Plato Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Mrs Chadwick used to say the same about my English, about going round the houses. But to be honest, I like going… — Alex Shearer Copy Share Image
“To speak again of solitude, it becomes ever clearer that in truth there is nothing we can choose or avoid. We are… — Anita Barrows Copy Share Image
I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on.… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“The truth is, white rage has undermined democracy, warped the Constitution, weakened the nation’s ability to compete economically, squandered billions of dollars… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
“My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we… — Tim McCoy Copy Share Image
Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Dear Willem: I’ve been trying to forget about you and our day in Paris for nine months now, but as you can… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“We have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Of all the creations of the Almighty, there is none more beautiful, none more inspiring than a lovely daughter of God who… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There's a huge misconception that it's all about the oil, and the truth is there's actually not much oil left in Abyei.… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“To be sure, just because the darkness and the light are equally sacred does not mean we benefit by becoming complacent about… — Tehya Sky Copy Share Image
“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths,… — L.P. Jacks Copy Share Image
You can't be happy all the time, noone can be. You can pretend all you want, but the world is such a… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Jesus did not reveal a “potential” you, he revealed the truth about you so that you may know the truth about yourself… — François Du Toit Copy Share Image
“So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyaltie… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
