Quotes About Truth

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

I've often noticed Fiona said, that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

I'll show you how, Peter said. Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

There is very seldom any true secret.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

When you grow up to be an author and write books, you'll think you're making the books up, but they'll all really be true, somewhere.

He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.

There goes Mig with her happy endings again, Chris said. But I don't care. I like happy endings. And I asked Chris why something should be truer just because it's unhappy. He couldn't answer.

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

My shining dishonesty will be my salvation

You do not seem to me to be a beast. This makes me quite sure that you can't really be a man.

Hasn't anyone ever told you that the Devil, however he appears, is never a perfect gentleman?

He is real, in his own way, Ann pointed out. After all, what's real? How do you know I'm real, or if you are?

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

One thing that struck me early is that you don't put into a photograph what's going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

I thought we'd known everything there was to know about each other but obviously that wasn't the case.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.