#truth

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#pilate #said #stay #truth #would

I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#authority #been #best #given #help

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#end #fools #life #living #over

You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you. ↗

— ColoZeus Benz

#love-peace #running-away-from-problems #truth #truth-of-life #love

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#individuality #inspirational #mask #personality #revolution

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#patience #perseverance #seeking #truth #life

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. ↗

— George Carlin

#men #stupid #truth #women #men

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#nothing

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person