Truth

"It is much easier to believe lies than the truth." "Why" asked Janna. "Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that."

"The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same."

"...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it."

"It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood."

"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

"When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas."

"You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"If you're explaining, you're losing."

"Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se... I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is."

"We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all."

"If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course."

"Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας."

"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."

"Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born."

"But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended."

"The truth is not good or bad, it is just the truth."

"Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality."

"When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground."

"And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie."