#now

The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#knowledge #searching #truth #inspirational

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know! ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#hand #his #i #interesting #into

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#distraction #love #orhan-pamuk #reading #snow

Just because people have the choice to do bad things doesn’t mean that He can’t use it for better and for good. I don’t want bad things to happen to people on earth, I don’t think that’s great but… The things that happened in my life I wouldn’t have chosen for myself but if that hadn’t happened to me I wouldn’t have one song for anybody to relate to it, it wouldn’t help anyone. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#god #inspirational #knowledge #pain #philosophy

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#crazy #knowledge #learn #takes #taught

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#going #into #like #now #politics

I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#i #i think #know #people #play

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay