Quotes About Truth

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power. Unlike orthodox Marxism, critical theory is concerned with language and identity more than with material conditions.

Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even more poetical truth.

one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

Every man and woman who has received the truth should live in such a manner before the Lord as to have the light of the Holy Spirit constantly beaming upon their minds. They should be in close communion through that Holy Spirit, with their God, so that if they had to stand alone in the midst of a gainsaying world they should be living witness to the truth of the Gospel and the power of God manifested in these days...having the consciousness that God was directing them in all their ways.

The principles of the Gospel never become stale, nor trite, [nor] threadbare. No matter how often we may hear a principle of truth dwelt upon, if the Spirit of God accompany the remarks that are made, it seems new, and sweet, and interesting, and not in the least wearisome. [CD2:89]

Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold.

Nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

Dead rats don't squeak.

Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.