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Quotes About Truth

I remembered that, so I allowed myself to hope... perhaps I wanted to... we all deceive ourselves, when we want to believe.
~ George R.R. Martin
First I anger Edmure, and now Robb, but all I have done is speak the truth. Are men so fragile they cannot bear to hear it?
~ George R.R. Martin
I love beauty, but sometimes a thing lovely to behold conceals vileness and evil within.
~ George R.R. Martin
A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.
~ George R.R. Martin
The grey sheep have closed their eyes, but the mastiff sees the truth. Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, an age for gods and heroes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger.
~ George R.R. Martin
There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.
~ George R.R. Martin
A queen must listen to all," she reminded him. "The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
~ George R.R. Martin
the longer he lived ,the more tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.
~ George R.R. Martin
But prominent families, often forget a simple truth, I've found. Knowledge is power.
~ George R.R. Martin
My mother told me that dead men don't sing
~ George R.R. Martin
Las verdades más dolorosas son a las que más hay que aferrarse.
~ George R.R. Martin
You will never find the eye with your fingers, Bran. You must search with your heart."Jojen studied Bran's face with those strange green eyes. "Or are you afraid?" "Maester Luwin says there's nothing in dreams that a man need fear." "There is," said Jojen. "What?" "The past. The future. The truth.
~ George R.R. Martin
Give me your word that you'll tell the queen what she wants to hear when she comes calling." "If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that.
~ George R.R. Martin
If he didn't talk about it, maybe he would forget. He had never wanted to remember. It might not even be a true remembering." - Bran
~ George R.R. Martin
If sinners speak, why should the righteous listen?
~ George R.R. Martin
The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous.
~ George R.R. Martin
The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.
~ George R.R. Martin
The dream was green, and the green dreams do not lie.
~ George R.R. Martin
My uncle Maegor was cruel," Alysanne was heard to say, "but age is crueler.
~ George R.R. Martin
When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly," he announced. "When I woke, I couldn't … or so the maester said. But what if he lied?
~ George R.R. Martin
I am walking, he thought, exulting. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.
~ George R.R. Martin
Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren
~ George R.R. Martin
It was a clear cold night and the stars shone down upon the mountains as bright and merciless as truth.
~ George R.R. Martin