Truth Quote by Sheri S. Tepper — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says, "I had a Vision..." They will believe if one says, "It was told me on a tablet of hidden gold..." But, if one says, "History teaches," then they will not believe.”

“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they will send their minds out to seek the truth.”

“Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.”

“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going.”

“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”

“It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.”

“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”

“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority. Accept the fact that you are not omniscient, but playing a zombie will not give you omniscience—that your mind is fallible, but becoming mindless will not make you infallible—that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.”

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

“Thoreau was an idiot.”