Quotes About Truth

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

People believe what they are told.

Years ago, I had a teacher who taught me that all ways lead to the Way," I said slowly, thinking. "That there is a great truth behind all the truths of the world, and the faces of the gods are masks that may be changed at will.

Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.

Believing a thing does not make it true.

You were the most desirable woman I've ever seen, and I resented you for it. Foolish, but true.

I thought about Imriel de la Courcel. What would it be like, at ten years old, to learn that everything you had believed about your life was a lie? To learn that you were a traitor's get, that your very existence was part and parcel of an unthinkable scheme, and people you'd never met would gladly see you dead?

You should tell them," Joscelin said shortly. "Tell them the truth. Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.

You claim to see. Have you ever glimpsed a vision of the future that proved true?" I hadn't. I hadn't, because every dire vision I'd been afforded, I'd found a way to avert.

See my finger wet, see my finger dry, cut my throat if I tell a lie.

The truth always finds a way, Maisie, in some manner or form. You cannot deliberately change the course of the river without causing a flood or drought somewhere else.

truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

I am no longer an artist interested and anxious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn in their lousy souls. —Paul Nash, Artist 1899–1946 Paul Nash served with the Artists' Rifles and the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Great War.

I believe it is to our detriment that age gives us a certain mistrust of those younger than ourselves, and we fail to see the strength within them to assume the burden of truth.

The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen.

Truth grows even more powerful when it is suppressed, and that often it takes only one small crack to bring down the wall, to release it.

Coincidence was a messenger sent by truth.

about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can't see the truth of them anymore.

No jumping to conclusions. Leave the path open for the truth to make itself known; do not hamper the way with speculation. Questions, Billy, are at the heart of our success—the more questions you ask, the better equipped we will be to help the girl.

Maurice Blanche had instructed her time and time again that the solution to a problem or question was rarely to be found in sitting alone and that movement of the body also moved the mind. It was a crucial part of the pilgrimage, the journey toward truth.

coincidence was a shadow cast by truth.