Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. -Ellen DeGeneres 652
I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift. -Mos Def 841
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. -Muhammad Ali 581
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. -Marie de France 1.28K
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. -Petrarch 718
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully, It’s a having a backbone. -Robert Kiyosaki 786
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they’re trying to write about. They have music. 673
Art is magic… But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. 678
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. 2.51K
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. 642
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. 703
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement. 695
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. 1.72K
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. 639
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. 1.25K
