Quotes About Truth

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

But why tell me?" Fireheart repeated. "Perhaps after so long I want a cat to know the truth," meowed Bluestar with a slight frown. "I think you of all cats might understand, Fireheart. Sometimes there are no right choices.

Fire will save the Clan," she murmured, and Fireheart remembered the mysterious prophecy that he had heard from his earliest days in ThunderClan. "You never understood, did you?" Bluestar went on. "Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when fire raged through our camp. Yet I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are the fire who will save ThunderClan.

The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.

Knowledge can be dangerous

The fourth cat stepped forward; Yellowfang didn't know his name. He was a skinny gray tom, and he studied Brokentail carefully before he spoke. "I give you a life for truth. Without it, kin is set against kin, Clan against Clan. Hold fast to truth in all your dealings and let it guide your words.

Squirrelflight looked at the ground. "I think you are paying for my mistake." "Because you and Leafpool lied about who our mother was?" Lionblaze sounded as though he couldn't believe his ears. She nodded meekly. "But that was moons ago!" Lionblaze snapped. "Why should StarClan drag that up now? And what has it got to do with me and Jayfeather? Did we break the code by being born?

In the end, it's lies that tear a Clan apart, not the truth.

It takes two to make a lie: one to tell it and the other to believe it.

Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth.

By the time the kits were ready to be apprenticed, the truth about who their father really was would be unable to shake the loyalty of their woodland Clanmates. Even Oakstar would understand, once he valued the kits for themselves rather than any legacy they might carry. And once RiverClan gets to know them, those cats will feel the same!

His name is Brokenkit," she meowed, her voice faltering. Lizardstripe nodded, stretching out a paw to touch the bend in his tail. That was where every cat would think his name came from. But Yellowfang knew the truth. She named her son for the feeling in her chest as she left him there, as if her heart were cleaving in two, as if her life had broken down the middle.

We have waited long. Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth. Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it.

With this life I give you justice.

Your secret has been like a maggot eating away inside an apple

What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it?

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

You know as well as I do that your voice is just pandering to a biased audience. No matter how twisted your games, the truth will always unravel them.

Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.