Quotes About Truth

simply telling the truth wasn't half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life.

It all has to do with it.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

One lies in truth, One truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to guide.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

Every individual spends a lifetime trying to disprove Copernicus by placing him- or herself at the heart of existence, but a small core of diehards manages to turn it into an art.

That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome.

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left. There were those who took the view that there was a liberation in the act of confession, but mostly they tended to be the ones who were listening, and not the ones confessing. The only full confessions occur on deathbeds; all others are partial, modified.

The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

The law wasn't a great business to be in if one valued truth, or even justice.

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.

One lies in truth, One's truth is lies. One path is death, One path is life. One question asked, The path to guide.

This world was not like the world of his stories.

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

In the end, the truth doesn't matter.

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. —Revelation 21:8

And the ignorant, as always, will be wrong.

There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appaling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before. The Burning Soul

A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.

integrity—in their specific sense of harmony between belief and action—may lack value when the underlying belief is badly wrong. And one way to determine when the belief is badly wrong is its tendency to cause harm to others.

An idea develops its validity simply because everybody seems to believe it, despite the absence of hard facts.