Quotes About Truth

Truth can only be served from a scalding kettle; whether you blister or make tea is up to you.

Because believing in nothing is still believing in something—and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.

Compound eyes confound lies.

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 War.

When the truth hurts, we always hate the messenger

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.

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

We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface. So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

La humanidad es inocente; la humanidad es culpable. Y ambos estados son indiscutiblemente ciertos.

I'm so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn't care.

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.

It was not exactly circular logic. More like spiral. An accepted lie that spun in upon itself until truth and fiction disappeared into a singularity of who the hell cares, as long as I'm happy?

She stayed with the Toll because deep down, she believed that Greyson Tolliver was the real thing. That he was divinely moved by the Tone, and that his humility about it was understandable. A humble nature was, after all, the hallmark of a true holy man. It made perfect sense that he would refuse to believe he was part of the Holy Triad, but just because he didn't believe it himself, didn't make it any less true.

In a perfect world, everything would either be black or white, right or wrong and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Estúpidos sueños. Incluso los buenos son malos, porque te recuerdan hasta qué punto es mala la realidad.

I know it's all true, but I can never prove what happens to people I don't know in places I can't see.

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that's the point.

But what if your mind becomes a pathological liar?

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince others it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.