Quotes About Truth

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Maska ir ?r?j? paties?ba. Nevis t?p?c, ka atkl?j, kas aiz t?s sl?pjas, bet t?p?c, ka aiz t? nek? nav.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

The Folk doubtlessly learned this lesson long ago. They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

I don't lie," I lied.

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Perhaps it is Oak who is the fool, who caught a wolf and thought that by putting it in a gown and speaking to it as though it were a girl, it would become one.

Sometimes lying is a real pleasure.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie,too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.

Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you.

He could no more lie than any of the Folk, but stories were the closest thing to lies the Folk could tell.

You're a liar, Cassel Sharpe. A lying liar who lies.

I wish I could say I was sorry, that I wanted to be honest the whole time, but I didn't. I never wanted to be honest. I just wanted what I told you to be the truth.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.