Quotes About Truth

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings.

Truth?" Gilbert's tone was amused. "No real scientist talks about the truth.

precision and clarity where the police

Loiselle shifted his gaze to the Prefect, supervising the arrests, before returning to Daniel. "Don't shy away from the truth. It's an amazing thing, to be willing to die for each other.

Surrender to reality,

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

four sentences that lead to wisdom.

People believe what they want to believe. Beginning with their own lies." "Hell is the truth seen too late," said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. "Thomas Hobbes.

wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

hard evidence

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

The dead woman's name is Jane Neal,' Gamache knew it was a false kindness to cushion a blow like this.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it any less insulting.

What is essential is invisible to the

As a librarian and archivist herself, she knew that history wasn't just written by the victors. First it had to be erased and rewritten. Replacing troublesome truth with self-serving myth.

The funny thing about murder is that the act is often committed decades before the actual action.

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Don't believe everything you think. Chief Inspector Gamache wrote that on the board for the incoming cadets at the start of every year at the Sûreté academy, and it stayed there all year. At first the students in the class he taught laughed. It sounded clever but silly. Little by little most got it. And those who didn't did not progress further. That phrase was as powerful as any weapon they'd be handed.

Your statistics might be right—" "They are." "—but your conclusions are wrong.

first two were obvious.

Often what seemed obvious was not a fact, or even the truth.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The

Most fairy tales are pretty dark.