Truth

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away."

"If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way."

"Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth."

"Love truth, but pardon error."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."

"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."

"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."

"Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!"

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."