Quotes About Truth

Ruin still used Reen's voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing …it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

You aren't insane, then." "Heavens no," I said. I eyed her. "You don't accept that." You see people that aren't there Mr. Leeds. It's a difficult fact to get around. "And, yet, I live a good life," I said. "Tell me. Why would you consider me insane, but the man who can't hold a job, who cheats on his wife, who can't keep his temper in check, you call him sane?

Clubs spoke so bluntly . . . so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge.

Imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

Sometimes stupid is right," Megan said, then paused. "Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.

Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.

Now, it's finally time to reveal some secrets.

Something is either right or it's wrong," Dalinar said, feeling stubborn. "The Almighty doesn't come into it." "God," Navani said flatly, "doesn't come into whether his commands are right or wrong." "Er. Yes.

You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

But here's the thing. The lies we tell, the dreams we create, they're not real. We can't let them be real. This might be the hardest lesson you have to learn.

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.

This is life, and I will not lie to you saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that's a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: you will be warm again.

La verdad no podrá ser derrotada nunca, Sarene. Aunque la gente la olvide temporalmente. -Eventeo-

The truth is not a downer," Abraham said in his lightly accented voice. "The lies that you pretend to accept are the true downer.

The most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

Wit smiled. "All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added.

praise should be honest, but it should never be withheld.

Meiner Erfahrung nach werden die meisten Probleme im Leben dadurch verursacht, dass entscheidende Informationen fehlen. Viele Leute wissen eben nicht das, was sie wissen müssen. Einige ignorieren die Wahrheit, andere verstehen sie ganz einfach nicht.

Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independent 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.

At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

A coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right.

Maybe it doesn't matter what he thinks. It's hard to feel that, but I can say it. That feels like a different kind of lying. One that's not all untrue.