Quotes About Truth

Uma vez mortos, os segredos que tão cuidadosamente acalentámos, quais plantas carnívoras no meio de um jardim florido, ficam com frequência expostos à luz, onde têm oportunidade de se desenvolver. Cultivados pela verdade, fertilizados pelo rumor, florescem, mas as flores são tóxicas para quem quiser conhecê-las mais de perto e cheirar o seu perfume venenoso

Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

and who compound that error by conflating their sense of truth

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Climbing that ladder of social hierarchy is an illusion that deludes any sense of happiness or truth.

To get their attention, start lobbing the light grenades (That burst and blind them with the truth! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!)

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.

Beyond the unacknowledged mental gate imprisoned deeply within the gloomy unknown of the ignorant mind lies your answer.

That is my right. I am your grandfather. And this is my property." "I am your grandson. You should tell me the truth. You're not setting a very good example.

Will you ever own up to

A lie twice believed is self-deceived.

Las preguntas que empiezan con un <> son las más difíciles de contestar - dijo Dale - Al final acabas haciendo suposiciones, en vez de basarte en certezas.

Never out of shame or to win favor

The only time you seem honest is when you're insulting someone!" "The only honest things I can say to you are insults.

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?

What would you think if I told you that I wasn't an Allomancer?" Sazed asked. "I'd think that you were lying," Vin said. "Have you known me to lie before?" "The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.