Quotes About Truth

George R.R. Martin

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on 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 a way knowing the truth.

A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

In the end words are just wind.

Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.

You lie," he said. "All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.

When I know the truth, I must go to Robert. And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys

Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it,' the dwarf had told him smiling. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice as Samwell Tarly had.

When treating with liars, even an honest man must lie.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

When you've know me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?