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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
Sep 16, 2025
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.
All truth is given by revelation, either general or special, and it must be received by reason. Reason is the God-given means for discovering the truth that God discloses, whether in his world or his Word. While God wants to reach the heart with truth, he does not bypass the mind.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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