#truth

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. ↗

— George Berkeley

#darkest #discern #even #eye #glimpse

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary. ↗

— Richard Berry

#each #get #individual #less #lot

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

A half-truth is usually less than half of that. ↗

— Bern Williams

#less #than #truth is #usually

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#film #guess #hal #his #i

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#enables #lie #realize #truth #us

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ↗

— Aesop

#even #liar #speaks #truth #will

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ↗

— Aesop

#both #commit #either #every #look

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. ↗

— Aesop

#chewing #complacency #does #else #get

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ↗

— Edward Albee

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