#truth

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#grown #i #little #more #much

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. ↗

— David Bowie

#course #departing #journey #same #time

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#breathes #change #creation #earth #everything

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#barks #coward #dog #god #his

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

#anger #begun #ceased #controversy #feel

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#children #decade #funding #last #machinery

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. ↗

— Lord Byron

#face #got #harlot #hold #hope

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? ↗

— Lord Byron

#changed #got #how #made #opinions