#truth

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place. ↗

— Mira Nair

#life #more #peculiar #place #really

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#free #free lunch #lunch #must #truth

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ↗

— Anais Nin

#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. ↗

— Anais Nin

#few #meaning #only #reduce #simplify

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#class #hollywood #i #i think #inmates

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#basis #both #matter #mode #truth

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#because #believe #eyes #i #know

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #steadfastness #truths #decisions

The bud of victory is always in the truth. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#bud #truth #victory

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation. ↗

— Toba Beta

#earth #god #history #life #man