The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.
They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.
The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti
A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.
I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf
It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.
You can't draw her because you idolize her. You keep trying to create a tribute. But these drawings aren't about that. They're the truth.
Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.
On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.
She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Dreams are the mind of the soul and the secret truth about us.
