Quotes About Truth

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. "Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.

A true Seeker, one who can make a difference, must show himself to be a Seeker. The wizard doesn't point to someone and say, 'Here is the Sword of Truth, you will be the Seeker.' He doesn't really have a choice in the matter.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.

I have found that people do not often want to believe the truth. It is of little value to them.

The truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Your only chance is to let the truth escape.

Richard didn't trust Minister Chanboor. The man's tongue was too smooth. Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

Oftentimes it's easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The truth, by its very nature, isn't always so attractive.

Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea—as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.

But the truth can seem awfully small and insignificant when compared to a mountain of lies.

I'm sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don't think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth." Richard stared into Samantha's dark eyes. "No, I wouldn't. Only the truth can help us.