#truth

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe. ↗

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#unexpected

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. ↗

— Jon Katz

#truth #conscience

The perfect killer has no conscience. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#conscience

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#alien #american #american people #competitive #entrust

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art. ↗

— Kevin James Breaux

#truth #writing #art

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#women #mother

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#truth

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. ↗