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“It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.”

World Moments Stories Truth Certain Make Sense Truthful

Author:Michael Kimmelman

“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.”

Men Mind Heart States Moments Truth Life Is Spirit Love Is Pure Beats Incredibles Purity Inward Credible

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

Thinking Ideas Moments Truth Expression Abuse Collectives Excess Suspicious Exaggerated

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!”

Knows Way Writing Persons Done Moments Truth Lying Desire Speak Deals Emotion Fiction Events Details Length Peculiar Packs Inventing Fiction Writers Devious

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.”

Mind Littles Stills Moments Facts Truth Known Gone Innocent

Author:Barry Long

“The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.”

Giving Soul Moments Facts Light Truth Form Lying Answers Sun Color Flower Heat Ripe Germs

Book:Essays in Literary Interpretation

Source: Essays in Literary Interpretation

“Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.”

Ifs Heart Enough Moments Truth Praying Forgotten Wicked Deceitful

Book:Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life

Source: Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life

“Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.”

Moments Truth Lasts Trust Truth Is Don't Trust

Author:Ahlam Mosteghanemi