Quotes About Truth

And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?

I tried my best to hide this , the Stormfather said. "So we could continue living a lie?" It is, in my experience, the thing men do best.

Gotta grow up sometime, right? I've found that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, a man wantin' something don't make it true, you know?" Ranette

No podemos dar por sentado que solo porque algo sea antiguo vaya a ser cierto.

This table has four legs. Would you not say hat is a truth, independent of my prospective?" Pattern buzzed uncertainly. "What is a leg? Only as it is defined by you. Without a perspective, there is no such thing as a leg, or a table. There is only wood.

In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes out perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can.

It might be religion, but it still has to make sense.

Most people are surprised to hear how they really sound, as the American media uses the call of the red-tailed hawk when showing an eagle. They don't think the eagle sounds regal enough. And so we lie to ourselves about the very identity of our national icon . . .

You don't believe that though," FM said. "Why not, if that's what you were taught?" "Do you believe everything you're told?" I asked. "No," FM said. "But it's hard for most people to ignore the dominant messaging sometimes, especially when no one is willing to speak against it." "Oh

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth, to seek it out. —From The Way of Kings, postscript

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

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

Never trust a man who tells you good news, Reen had always said. It's the oldest, but easiest, way to con someone.

The world has always been like this, even if I didn't know it.

People suffered when the truth became a commodity to be speculated upon.

El honor ha muerto

People are never pleased when you reveal that their beliefs are wrong.

Ranette said a lot of mean things, but they weren't ... well, they weren't actually mean. He joked, and she joked. And sure, sometimes there was an edge of truth to it, but that's what friends was about. Making you look a little silly when you were together, so that you didn't look really stupid when you were apart.

Debe alguien, un ser invisible, declarar qué es el bien para que sea bueno? Yo creo que mi propia moralidad, que responde solo ante mi corazón, es más segura y veraz que la moralidad de aquellos que hacen el bien solo porque temen el castigo. —Pero

She was as crazy as the others. Her insanity just happened to align with reality.

Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully an do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven't the patience for a simperer.

Then we shall do an evaluation. Answer truthfully and do not exaggerate, as I will soon discover your lies. Feign no false modesty, either. I haven't the patience for a simperer.

no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.