Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

People so easily forget their past selves.

[...most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.

Most truth's are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, they’ll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.

the truth is that most people are simply too distracted by their thoughts to have the selflessness of consciousness pointed out directly.

The trouble is that most people want to
be right. The very best people, however,
want to know if they’re right

Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.

Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.