"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Truth, Power, Thought, Symbol, Character

"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The living souls have the breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Truth, Living, Breath, Life, Existence

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Truth, Death, Life, End

"What is the nature of the border between truth and lies? It is permeable and blurred because it is planted thick with rumour, confabulation, misunderstandings and twisted tales. Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Truth, Lies, Perception, Reality

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Truth, Knowledge, Denial, Reality

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

Truth, People, Democracy

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."

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"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."

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"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."

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"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."

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"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."

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"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

"The living souls have the breath of life."

"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."

"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."

"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."

"The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man."

"What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too."

"The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky."

"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."

"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward."