Quotes About Truth

Taint what a horse looks like, it's what a horse be.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.

My personal theory is that he has a very firm grasp upon reality, it's simply not a reality the rest of us have ever met before.

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn't divide easily into 'true' and 'false', but instead could be 'things that people needed to know at the moment' and 'things that they didn't need to know at the moment'.

When you die, the first thing you lose is your life. The next thing is your illusions.

It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact. ... Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

I did start out in witchcraft to get boys, to tell you the truth.' 'Think I don't know that?' 'What did you start out to get, Esme?' Granny stopped, and looked up at the frosty sky and then down at the ground. 'Dunno,' she said at last.'Even, I suppose.

A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.

It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.

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

There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

THERE IS NO JUSTICE said Death JUST ME

When he was a boy he'd read books about great military campaigns, and visited the museums and looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren't very good at them.

Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

There will be justice, said Brutha. If there is no justice, there is nothing.

Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.

And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...

The children refused to disbelieve in the monsters because, frankly, they knew damn well the things were there. But she'd found that they could, very firmly, also believe in the poker.