#rut

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. ↗

— George Berkeley

#darkest #discern #even #eye #glimpse

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#comfort #first #meant #save #truth

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#does #given #haven #lies #lull

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#even #go #guys #hey #i

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary. ↗

— Richard Berry

#each #get #individual #less #lot

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doubt #doubted #half #her #never

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

A half-truth is usually less than half of that. ↗

— Bern Williams

#less #than #truth is #usually