Quotes About Truth

By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....

That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth.

You can't alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.

Five chickens do not make a cow.

We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.

Inside us there is a place that is our true self.

I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I mean. I think he understood him and loved him before he spoke." Mother didn't answer, because she knew that it was true. "And I know he loves Grego, and Quara, and Olhado. And Miro, and even Quim. And me. I know he loves me. And when he shows me that he loves me, I know it's true because he never lies to anybody.

Só descredo no incrível." I only disbelieve the unbelievable.

Orson Scott Card

the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

to be deceived. You know why I am here." "Ah. I guess this means Dap filed a report.

I don't have any knack for making people cry, Ela,' he answered softly. His voice was a caress. No, stronger, it was like a hand gripping her hand, holding her, steadying her. 'Telling the truth makes you cry.

Not that science is particularly pure, except compared to politics.

Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.

Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.

Ender was a destroyer, but what he destroyed was illusion, and the illusion had to die.

Only a wise man could see my people so clearly in so short a time. Only a ruthless one would say it all out loud. Your virtue and your flaw – we need them both.

Keep testing your guesses against the evidence. Keep trying out new guesses to see if they fit better. Keep looking for new evidence, even if it disproves your old hypotheses. With each step you get just a little closer to that elusive thing called "the truth.

Piensa que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirte en lo que se finge ser.

Mother, I don't dream of marrying a prince and riding off into the sunset. That's a good thing, my darling, because there are no princes - only men and animals who pretend to be men.

Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth.

A liar sees lies," said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

Truth did not care much about such credentials. It refused to give up and reveal itself just because it realized you were bound to find it eventually. Bean