#ruth

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#beneath #effectively #humanity #latent #live

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #black #black history #complex #could

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#bear #earn #name #rejoice #reproach

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#everything #false #making #materialism #truth

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#assimilated #cannot #communicated #contagion #crowd

The color of truth is gray. ↗

— Andre Gide

#gray #truth #truth is

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#dying #lips #sits #truth #upon

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#beautiful #beginning #composite #each #great