#truth

It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beauty

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

#love #philosophy #truth #virtue #beauty

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#emotions #nothing #own #truth

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#greatness #simplicity #truth #where

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#exactly #god #reads #replace #right

I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#believe #each #i #i believe #learn

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#allowing #anxious #become #called #dismissed

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth. ↗

— Venus Williams

#guess #i #more #rumors #than

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered