Quotes About Truth

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a payless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory.

You cannot follow another's footsteps to the truth," Silette wrote. "A hand can point the way. But the hand is not the teaching. The finger that points the way is not the way. The mystery is a pathless land, and each detective must cut her own trail through a cruel territory. "Believe nothing. Question everything. Follow only the clues.

We can take it. Not everyone can. But I'd rather have the truth, ugly as it is, over every beautiful lie in the world. Because I seen too many times where the lies end up. Here. There.

The truth is a funny thing," Constance said. "Just when you think you've got a hold on it, it slips away.

Psalm 52:3: "You love evil rather than good, and falsehood rather than truth.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Sometimes when you get older — and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true — why, then you get offended because you can't remember the first part. All you know is that you've been called a liar.

Life had made her afraid, of words that were no meant, of emotions that were untrue.

He was still lying to her, it was a compulsion he couldn't escape from but there was no other way.

What if the [emperor's new] clothes really *were* invisible? What if they were spun from the most magical thread in the entire universe? And what if everyone was too stupid to see? Including the stupid little kid who became the hero of the story?

Alas, this isn't Utopia or even Minneapolis.

And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too?

Do you ever have the feeling that everybody's making everything up, all the time?

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

the only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all...

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything—sometimes ignorance is safer.

You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.

Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open

Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.

The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth

you can dream about something for so long, but sometimes reality doesn't exactly live up.

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