#tru

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#skepticism #truth #determination

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#on-fiction #stories #truth #writing #fiction

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#on-fiction #fiction

I know what it is to want something that could destroy you. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#want #wanting #behavior

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #george-orwell #ideas #media #news

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#ask #best #best way #books #divine

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#sun

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#honesty #integrity #morality #truth #morals

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#truth #sun