983 quotes found
“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”
“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”
“She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.”
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the q...”
“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That ther...”
“A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesnt fit, you cant exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can a...”
“The color of truth is grey.”
“I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't”
“Nothing is yet in its true form.”
“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”
“The truth is always an abyss. One must as in a swimming pool dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again lau...”
“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”
“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”
“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
“I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.”
“The truth will make you odd.”
“Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.”
