#truth

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

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. ↗

— Lactantius

#divine #give #homer #human #information

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ↗

— Lactantius

#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#matter #money #only #output #reduces

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. ↗

— Spike Lee

#doctor #dramatically #everybody #faults #film

Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#age

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#ability #according #does #our #stomach

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#core #courage #each #go #letting