52 Truths And Quotes

In a world brimming with information and opinions, finding authentic wisdom can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. We've carefully sifted through mountains of content to bring you a curated collection of the top 52 truths and quotes that resonate with timeless insight. These pearls of wisdom span a range of topics, offering perspectives that challenge, inspire, and enlighten. Whether you are seeking motivation, clarity, or simply a moment of reflection, this collection is designed to be a beacon of truth in your daily life. Dive in and let these powerful words guide you on your journey.

1. “He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.” - Cormac McCarthy

2. “...the heart is an organ of fire.” - Michael Ondaatje

3. “If you couldn't catch up with me before the fame and fortune when you had owed me money and/or took up time with me, why on God's green earth should I take up any more time with you to borrow more money and not see you again until its time to borrow some more.” - Cleon T. Day III

4. “His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.” - Kate Morton

5. “Die großen Leute verstehen nie etwas von selbst,und für die Kinder ist es zu anstrengend, ihnen immer und immer wieder erklären zu müssen.""As pessoas grandes nunca percebem nada sozinhas e uma criança acaba por se cansar de ter que estar sempre a explicar-lhes tudo.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

6. “Things are rough all over.” - S.E. Hinton

7. “Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.” - T.J. Forrester

8. “Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?” - Ally Condie

9. “Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.” - Terry Pratchett

10. “One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee

11. “When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.” - Nick Hornby

12. “It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee

13. “Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.” - Virginia Woolf

14. “Nessuna passione cova più forte in petto all'uomo, del desiderio di far pensare gli altri a modo proprio. Nulla offusca tanto il cielo della sua felicità, nulla lo riempie tanto di furore, quanto il sapere che un altro tiene a vili cose di cui egli fa gran conto. Whigs e Tories, liberali e laburisti, per che cosa lottano - se non per il loro prestigio? Non l'amore della verità, ma la sete di dominio scaglia fazione contro fazione, e fa desiderare a una parrocchia la rovina di un'altra parrocchia. Ognuno pensa a serbare la pancia per i fichi e ad asservirsi l'avversario, piuttosto che al trionfo della verità e all'esaltazione della virtù.” - Virginia Woolf

15. “He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.” - Ken Kesey

16. “But the rest are even scared to open up and laugh. You know, that's the first thing that got me about this place, that there wasn't anybody laughing. I haven't heard a real laugh since I came through that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” - Ken Kesey

17. “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

18. “I want people to see and hear the things I see and hear. And I want them to remember how it was when they were children. I don't want them to grow up entirely. Every adult is the creation of a child. My own signature, that identifying scrawl required by parcel postmen and valued by a handful of comic-book fans, that signature was devised by a thirteen-year-old boy who thought I'd want to seem important one day. I am stuck with it. My life is the result of that boy's dreams and limitations, and of the company that boy kept a long time ago, back when things could still happen for the first time.” - Chris Fuhrman

19. “Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.” - Jackie Kessler

20. “It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.” - Lemony Snicket

21. “No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

22. “It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...” - Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

23. “in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.” - Patrick Rothfuss

24. “Never make the mistake of thinking that alcoholics are weak, because it took an incredible amount of internal strength and conviction in order for me to keep drinking despite the growing mountain of evidence against it.” - Mishka Shubaly

25. “a thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer then the truth” - Leah Wilson

26. “it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” - G.K. Chesterton

27. “I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?” - Stephen King

28. “Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your background or book preferences I will be your friend. :)” - Red Phoenix

29. “The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.” - Frederick The Great

30. “Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.” - William James

31. “Not when tradition is built upon Truth".~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

32. “An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does” - Lemony Snicket

33. “...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...” - John Geddes

34. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” - Matt D. Miller

35. “I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.” - Larry McMurtry

36. “That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.” - David Wong

37. “And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.” - Nick Harkaway

38. “There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…” - Dan Stevens

39. “In the lie of truth lies the truth.” - Dejan Stojanovic

40. “Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.” - Cass R. Sunstein

41. “The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.” - Richard Handler

42. “If you cannot lie, tell a different truth.” - thea_zara

43. “I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.” - Kaira Rouda

44. “The rite, the becoming-animal of the scapegoat clearly illustrates this: a first expiatory animal is sacrificed, but a second is driven away, sent out into the desert wilderness. In the signifying regime, the scapegoat represents a new form of increasing entropy in the system of signs: it is charged with everything that was "bad" in a given period, that is, everything that resisted signifying signs, everything that eluded the referral from sign to sign through the different circles; it also assumes everything that was unable to recharge the signifier as its center and carries off everything that spills beyond the outermost circle.” - Gilles Deleuze

45. “Truth inevitably pierces its target, the hearts of men".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods

46. “...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...” - John Geddes

47. “Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change.” - Keela Sanders

48. “They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

49. “The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

50. “They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

51. “I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.” - CJ Roberts

52. “Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"- Sylvia Plath's epitaph (from Wu Cheng'en's novel Journey to the West aka. Monkey, translated by Arthur Waley)” - Wu Cheng'en