#ruth

I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#self-discovery #self-empowerment #self-esteem #self-help #truth-and-lies

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.) ↗

— Carl Sagan

#truth #persistence

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#bullying #strength #truthful #weakness #adversity

So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#heart #peril #reality #truth #adversity

Truth  is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time. ↗

— R. Lewis

#love #politics #power-of-words #truth #food

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty. ↗

— Sharon Creech

#love

I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important. He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#mikey #truth #love

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #fearless #humanity #humility

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love. ↗

— Austin Kleon

#love

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains. ↗

— Imre Kertész

#deception #government #radicalism #tolerance #truth