#truth

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#avoided #because #bewildered #comedies #feeling

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#indeed #make-believe #mixture #take #truth

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#god #must #particular #realize #telling

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#cannot #find #god #soul #speaks

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#last #last time #never #remember #said

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. ↗

— Jules Renard

#least #makes #many #power #shock

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#ethnic #game #maintain #must #national