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Tuesday, 10 December 2013

All About Truth

Marilyn Monroe
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
Marilyn Monroe
 
 
Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
 
 
George Carlin
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
George Carlin
 
 
Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Mark Twain
 
Mark Twain
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain

Jess C. Scott
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
Jess C. Scott, The Intern

Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

J.K. Rowling
“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Gloria Steinem
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
Gloria Steinem

Mahatma Gandhi
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Aldous Huxley
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

Suzanne Collins
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
 
 
John Lennon
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
John Lennon

“A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.”
Andrew Wolfe

Winston Churchill
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Winston Churchill

George Carlin
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
Mark Twain
 
 
Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde

Stephanie Klein
“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty: A Memoir

George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

Flannery O'Connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
Flannery O'Connor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
 
 
Benjamin Disraeli
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
Benjamin Disraeli

Jim Morrison
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
Jim Morrison

Henry David Thoreau
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Henry David Thoreau 
 
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Ernest Hemingway
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway
 
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
George Orwell, 1984

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