Quotes About Truth

Me kaikki elämme todellisuudessa, mutta kukaan meistä ei tiedä minkä näköinen se on.

For all the harmless innocence conjured by the word library, the Friedmans knew the truth: a library, properly maintained, could save the world - or burn it down.

Truth was truth and anything else was fuckery.

To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.

If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line.

Being right is the enemy of staying right because it leads you to forget the way the world works

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity.

This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real -- and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

The best lies to tell, said Jane, are the ones people want to believe.

Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that—a hope—as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

He said you were very dangerous. No more dangerous than anyone else who dares to speak the truth.

Eso es lo malo de las premoniciines, que tienen la molesta costumbre de hacerse realidad.

That's insane.' 'If you look around, you won't find much that isn't.

Children are such consummate liars

It's confusing to suddenly have to reappraise all you know, to rejigger one's outlook in the light of new knowledge, and realize that everything you thought was truth and justice was little more than an elaborate fiction.

Information can liberate but also imprisonate.

Careful,' he said, 'Information can liberate but also imprisonate....

There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her—only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay

Goodness me, no,' he replied with perhaps not quite the tone of veracity in his voice he'd hoped for, 'you can leave whenever you want.