#truth

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ↗

— Sara Shepard

#perfect #pretty-little-liars #sara-shepard #truth #journey

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. ↗

— Tacitus

#delay #falsehood #haste #inspection #truth

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#definitely #emphasis #exaggeration #truth #uncertainty

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#truth #uncertainty

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#protest #truth-telling #wit

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #literary-tradition #truth #beauty

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ↗

— Alice James

#truth #experience

...oppression is as American as apple pie... ↗

— Audre Lorde

#oppression

the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be riskier, because the words they say and the things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#truth #potential

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#judgment #truth #judgment