“Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.”— Michael Ondaatje Related Quotes “The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”— Stephen Jay Gould “The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.”— Beverly Engel “Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.”— Cortney S. Warren