#tru

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre ↗

— George Orwell

#fiction-novel #philosophical #truth #change

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone. ↗

— Lauren Conrad

#love #true-love #love

The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #funny #inspirational #kiss #kissing-quotes

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#trust #change

Men understand direct communication. It's bitches who speak in code. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#communication

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. ↗

— David Levithan

#honesty #lies #truth #communication

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #communication #controversy #disapproval #emotions

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#reason #truth #communication

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#glory #god #theatrum-gloriae-dei #communication

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that … [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#literature #truth #beauty