Quotes About Truth

panicked people didn't listen to reason and didn't want to hear the truth.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

First Rule: people would believe any lie, either because they wanted to believe it was true, or because they feared it was.

Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can't make the sun rise at midnight, nor can it change a wrong into a right, or the other way around. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand other men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

it's no help to be ignorant of the truth....

Some truths, after a certain point, could be felt viscerally, and at that point everything clicked with the finality of a dead bolt on a prison of truth.

Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard

Wizards first Rule: People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it MIGHT be true

Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real.

As with all truth, there would be those who refused to believe it and would not even look at the proof.

But people rarely believe the truth when they see it and less so when they don't want to, and that makes the position of Seeker a dangerous one.

Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers

People who for whatever reason don't want to see the truth can be acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dares to point out that truth.

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. "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.

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Righteous anger can be an extraordinary thing to behold." Kahlan smiled at his excitement. "It can make the good tremble with joy, and the wicked shiver in fear." The smile left his face. "But people rarely believe the truth when they see it and less so when they don't want to

Few people understood the weapon that was a properly fashioned twist of information.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid ti might be true. Zed

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who always represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler

Their words can sound good—almost make sense—if you don't think, if you just feel. Truth doesn't seem to count for much

Rage is the only armor you have against the pain; it gives a measure of protection. The stronger the enemy, the stronger the pain. But the stronger the rage, the stronger the shield. It makes you care less about the truth of what you have done. In some cases enough to not feel the pain.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything