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Quotes About Truth

Maybe you read my article in WooHoo ? I never read press. You start believing it, you see...
~ Eoin Colfer
There are those who believe that true love is humankind's greatest motivator. Those people are sweet but completely wrong.
~ Eoin Colfer
I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long.
~ Eoin Colfer
That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable
~ Eoin Colfer
Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.
~ Eoin Colfer
What are you? Who are you? I thought you shared Artemis's memories. How can you be so stupid? Orion was unperturbed. I share everything. Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness Monster, me. It's all real, maybe.
~ Eoin Colfer
The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.
~ Eoin Colfer
Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness monster, me. It's all real. Maybe.
~ Eoin Colfer
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.
~ Epictetus
Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?
~ Epictetus
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
~ Epictetus
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
~ Epictetus
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
~ Epictetus
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
~ Epictetus
The gods do not exists, and even if they exist they do not trouble themselves about people, and we have nothing in common with them. The piety and devotion to the gods that the majority of people invoke is a lie devised by swindlers and con men and, if you can believe it, by legislators, to keep criminals in line by putting the fear of God into them.
~ Epictetus
When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.
~ Epictetus
People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.
~ Epictetus
Philosophers say that people are all guided by a single standard. When they assent to a thing, it is because they feel it must be true, when they dissent, it is because they feel something isn't true, and when they suspend judgement, it is because they feel that the thing is unclear.
~ Epictetus
at any one time, whereas the conjunctive proposition 'Both it is day and it is night' is false at any moment. 8. As you are careful … at the same time: E.g. by 'strutting' or otherwise walking in an inappropriate manner, or engaging in undignified thoughts or daydreams. 9. Don't embrace marble statues: Outdoors, naked, in cold weather: a bizarre and showy kind
~ Epictetus
İnsan?n zaten bildiÄŸini sand??? ÅŸeyi öÄŸrenmesi imkans?zd?r.
~ Epictetus
Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. Return and return again to what is essential and worthy. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.
~ Epictetus
Don't mistake your assumptions for the truth.
~ Epictetus
Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.
~ Epictetus
Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments and avoidable devastation.
~ Epictetus