Quotes About Truth

I saw the necessity of living and accepting bullcrap in my midst. It was everywhere. In teachers' manuals, in the platitudes muttered by educators, in school boards, in the community, and most significantly, in myself.

With this truth bearing light will begin a new life. Old unwanted impressions are discarded and we are protected from the damaging effects of new experiences.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

He exuded ambiguities she decided, that was his fascination. His mouth spoke; his eyes said something other: his smile belied everything.... He played with the language of the Circle of Days like a child with an arsenal of twigs.... His music said otherwise it seemed to echo through time out of a past as old as the stones on the hill. He lied with every note he played. Or in his music he finally told the truth.

Do you want a half-truth or truth?" "Truth." "Then you will have to trust me." His voice was suddenly softer than the fire sounds, melting into the silence within the stones. "Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope. Trust me." Morgon

He went into a dark tower of truth for you. Do you have the courage to give him your own name?

He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.

I thought that all magic has its price.' 'Magic does,' Faey said. 'But let us consider this an exchange of knowledge. I'll tell you what you want to know and you'll tell me why you want to know it.

I did not say what I thought; perhaps, if it remained unspoken, it would become untrue.

I would be mute, beautiful, changeless as the earth of An for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house at Anuin - I would do that for you and for no other man in the realm. But it would be a lie, and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

We have withdrawn into ourselves not out of horror, but out of a need to reconstruct the patterns we have called truth. In the very fabric of the realm, its settlement, history, tales, war, poetry, its riddles - if there is an answer there, a shape of truth that holds itself, we will find it.

His philosophy hasn't changed: to get in front of the problem and tell the truth about what is happening. "If problems exist, recognize them and take corrective steps immediately.

Jamie likes to talk to people. He wants to know them and what they think. He believes that accurate information is essential for everyone: investors, employees, newspaper reporters.

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

We just have to find out what he's guilty of.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

Nothing was true but the fatigue of life and the eternal disappointment.

because neither of us will ever be any different from what we are this minute.

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike.

The wine in her head promised music or poetry or truth, but she was stranded on the brink. Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous

I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

I was seeing what a writer can do with the tatters of truth, the unfinished stories that give us no rest.

Which side are you on, Cade? she asked quietly. Unwilling to answer the implications in that question, Cade gave the simple truth. Mine. His