Quotes About Truth

Bez w?tpienia elfowie odrobili lekcj? ju? dawno temu. Nie musz? mami? ludzi, bo ludzie sami si? mami?.

You think I'm weak." "You are weak," I tell her. "You're weak and pathetic and I-" "I'm a mirror," she shouts. "I'm the mirror you don't want to look at.

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

Have you discovered aught of my erstwhile murderer?

Taryn takes a breath, as if steeling herself. "He's dead because I killed him.

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 easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

And empty words are evil.

It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque.

Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinée.