Quotes About Truth

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

I guess you're right,' he said. 'They don't usually put anything on the television unless it's true.

A wise man of Old Earth had once claimed that science would destroy mankind, not through its weapons of mass destruction, but through finally proving that there was no god.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.

Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Ahzek Ahriman

I love mirrors,' he had once heard Fulgrim say. 'They let one pass through the surface of things.

You went to a strange land searching For a truth you felt was wrong That's when the heartaches started Though you're where you want to be You're not where you belong When your love has moved away You must face yourself and you must say I remember better days

A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes.

to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.

if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

I know what you are thinking about', said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

It is one of the joys of studying history that first impressions are always wrong. Truth is proverbially stranger than fiction, but only because no guiding mind has contrived to make it credible.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

So what was it then exactly, this truth-telling? ... It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life —of so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

This was the great truth of life, that fact and fiction were always merging, interchanging.

Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.

I believed, as so many people do, that it is possible to exercise more and eat less and keep it up for a lifetime. That's the conventional wisdom, and it's the biggest lie in health.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.

Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, But he cannot be bought or sold.

If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.