"The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you."

-- Soren Kierkegaard

#Truth Is Quotes #Traps Quotes

“I spent so much time focusing on haters that I forgot about the people that actually love me. And that's who I'm focused on this time around: the people that want to listen. The people that don't want to listen, don't listen. This is for the people that want to.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.”
“Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!”
“I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.”
“There never was a story that was happy through and through.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.26, Hachette UK
“Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.”
“Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.”
“I think Walt Whitman went to the help wanted section and found a squib that said "Wanted: National Poet." And he was innocent enough to believe there really was such a job. And if he could just write a poem that incorporated everything he felt and suspected and hoped for from America that he would have the position.”

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