Fritz Perls Quotes

We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

Usually all my tattoos came at good times. A tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

Many years ago I chased a woman for almost two years, only to discover that her tastes were exactly like mine: we both were crazy about girls.

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

Writing is the act of discovery.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.