#rut

No one, from pontiffs to professors, has a monopoly on the truth. In the end, we are all just travelers--not scientists or mystics or any one brand of thinker. By nature, we are scientists and mystics, reductionists and holists, left-brained and right-brained, mixed up creatures trying to catch an occasional glimpse of the truth. The best we can do is to be tolerant of both sides of our nature--knowing that these reflect the twin aspect of the universe--and learn from whatever wisdom is offered. ↗

— David Darling

#wisdom #nature

It is not history. But I am beginning to wonder strongly what is the nature of history. Is it only memory in decent sentences, and if so, how reliable is it? I would suggest, not very. And that therefore most truth and fact offered by these syntactical means is treacherous and unreliable. And yet I recognise that we live our lives, and even keep our sanity, by the lights of this treachery and this unreliability, just as we build our love of country on these paper worlds of misapprehension and untruth. Perhaps this is our nature, and perhaps unaccountably it is part of our glory as a creature, that we can build our best and most permanent buildings on foundations of utter dust. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#truth #love

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times. ↗

— Henry James

#greatness #occasion #self #truth #nature

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #euphemism #literature #literature-quotes #nature

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#sympathy #truth #nature

Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#honesty #life #truth #death

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time. ↗

— Mira Grant

#inspirational #lies #truth #beauty

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#deceit #fooled #hurt #lies #no-truth

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ↗

— William Blake

#logic #philosophy #religion #truth #religion

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fundamental #great #i #i believe #i believe in