Quotes About Truth

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Have you never understood more than you could put into words? Many people only have their slogans--but they respond because the slogans are true and touch a spark in their hearts and their lives. And as for the ones who don't want to think for themselves, we teach them to anyway.

Because here's the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.

The truth about mental health is that the causes of all of the mental conditions you hear about are unknown, and the idea that "hidden diseases" lurk behind human suffering is an out-and-out failure.

Satan is screaming lies over us all day long. And God whispers the truth is a still, small voice. So often the voice we listen to most is the one we hear loudest.

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.

One thing we've learned is that when people, especially politicians, start making decisions based on a reading of their moral compass, facts tend to be among the first casualties.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Men occassionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened. -Sir Winston Churchill

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. —Lyman Beecher

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things – once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

When I began this journey, I was young. I believed in one thing. I believed in glory. I know now, 'Siballe, that glory is nothing. Nothing. This is what I now understand.' 'What else do you now understand, Karsa Orlong?' 'Not much. Just one other thing. The same cannot be said for mercy.

Show me a mortal who is not pursued, and I'll show you a corpse. Every hunter is hunted, every mind that knows itself has stalkers. We drive and are driven. The unknown pursues the ignorant, the truth assails every scholar wise enough to know his ignorance, for that is the meaning of unknowable truths.

The world, someone once said, gives back what is given. In abundance. But then, as Kallor would point out, someone was always saying something. Until he got fed up and had them executed.

While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out. Betrayers came from everywhere, including inside his own body, his own mind. He could trust no one, not even himself.

Is that you?" came Shurq's voice from the darkness within. "Why yes," Bugg said, "it is." "Liar. You're not you, you're Bugg. Where's Tehol? I need to talk to Tehol.

Victory is an illusion. In all things.