Quotes About Truth

Richard unfolded his arms, holding them out to his sides. "What difference does that make? 'I,' 'we,' what does it matter?" She stared at him. "One be true, one be a lie. How much more difference could there be?" Richard folded his arms across his chest again, frowning. "Chase must have a very difficult time telling you the stories of his adventures." Adie's small smile came back. "True

Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "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.

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

People would believe any lie, either because they wanted it to be true, or because they feared it was.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this.

Okay, so I lied about my age. Everybody does.

Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...

I'm trying to stop lying to myself about little things. I'm still working on the big ones.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes? NO Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact. THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... Really? Then what would have happened, pray? A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

There's no point in believing in things that exist.

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Just because you're an angel doesn't mean you have to be a fool.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.