Quotes About Truth

All resonates. The past, the present, and the future. The tales we hear as children—the stories we then pass on—have happened, are happening, or will happen soon enough. If not, then the stories would not exist. They resonate in our hearts because they are true. Even the ones that begin as lies.

No, says Ariana. It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

We are not the enemy," he says. "That's what the enemy always says.

And as I see it they are all innocent. Even the guilty. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it, Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Love the ponytail, Connor says, pointing at his hair. Lev shrugs. It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it. Don't, Connor tells him. I lied. I hate it.

This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He pointed to his chest. 'I keep truth here. Not in other people's ears.' ?The Night Butcher

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

You see through the facade of the world, Citra Terranova. You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement.

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a Heartland War.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.

truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren't happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. The emperor not only had no clothes, turns out he had no testicles either. The

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true. Yeah, well, just because the law says it, it doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought abou it, and decided it made sense. (...) But if it weren't for the law, would you still believe it?

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

Reality is overrated—but they'll remember thinking they knew the secrets of the universe

We are forever impaled upon our own wisdom.

Credit is where credit is due and to honner the trixture whose illusions finally become true

Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.

Because it is easier to believe that scythes aren't real, and that I am a liar, and that the moon is made of cheese, than it is to admit that everything you believe about the world is wrong.

That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind