Quotes About Truth

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right .

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking." He looked up at me. "And sometimes, the coward makes fools of wiser men.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

It's not a lie," Shallan said, "if everyone understands and knows what it means." "Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am.

People see in stories what they're looking for, my young friend.

Sometimes, the answers we need don't match the questions we're asking.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

light makes shadow. Truth makes lies.

Humans can see the world as it is not. It is why your lies can be so strong. You are able to not admit that they are lies.

When we are young," Jasnah said, "we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.

Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become....

The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all , he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true. But they all had truth.

Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are." "No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

The old Words must be spoken again.

It frightens me," Shallan said, "because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

A boring truth will always have difficulty competing with an exciting lie.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. "I have to know," he whispered. "Know?" "You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-" "Tell you? Tell you what?" "If honor is dead, Kaladin whispered. "He is," Syl said. "But he lives on in men. And in me.

Truth is individual." "What? No it's not. Truth is . . . it's Truth. Reality." "Your truth is what you see," Pattern said, sounding confused. "What else could it be? That is the truth that you spoke to me, the truth that brings power.

What you haven't realized before is that all libraries are far more dangerous than you've always assumed.