You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.