#ruth

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#distorted #distorts #essential #forms #life

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#also #am #aunts #cousins #daughter

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#calms #consequences #excess #fatal #heats

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#argument #falsehood #finally #politics #prevails

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#divine #pearl #precious #rich #swine

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#critics #cynical #cynicism #does #get

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#age

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#pursuit #source #such #truth