#truth

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#count #earn #fair #honesty #integrity

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#just #magic #openness #some #truth

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. ↗

— Charles Olson

#even #everybody #extent #false #interesting

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. ↗

— Origen

#even #field #foreign #go #many

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#designed #give #language #lies #make

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#broadcast #catch #dead #fell #however

A beautiful thing is never perfect ↗

— egyptian proverb

#the-real-truth #beauty

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#joy #nearly #pursuing #revelations #scientist

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor. ↗

— Judith Malina

#how #know #look #many #me

With gentleness, Overcome anger. With generosity, Overcome meanness. With truth, Overcome delusion. ↗

— The Dhammapada

#delusion #generosity #truth #anger