Quotes About Truth

Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.

Even in your world, people have died for words. Sometimes they've died of them. One learns to be careful what one says in such a world. And like anything so powerful, like any weapon, words cut both ways. They redeem and betray—sometimes both at once. The attribute we name as a virtue may also turn out to be our bane. So we watch what we call things—in case we should turn out to be right.

They took her intent and read that too, turning it into fact.

It was an annoying realization, but it was the truth; and as such, she wouldn't have given it up for anything.

to be honest, and I'm not

Dr. Park Dietz

I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed, deconstructed, or forced to bear the burden of metaphor, symbol, omen, or portent.

Did she really remember that day so clearly or was she making it up as she went along?

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

Todos los niños mitifican su nacimiento. Es un rasgo universal. ¿Quieres conocer a alguien? ¿Su corazón, su mente, su alma? Pídele que te hable de cuando nació. Lo que te cuente no será la verdad: será una historia. Y nada es tan revelador como una historia. Vida Winter, Cuentos de cambio y desesperación.

They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

There's a great many things hard to fathom in darkness that set themselves straight in the light of day.

What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

Cuando el miedo y el frío hacen de ti una estatua en tu propia cama, no ansíes que la Verdad pura y dura acuda en tu auxilio. Lo que necesitas es el mullido consuelo de un relato. La protección balsámica, adormecedora, de una mentira.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

Everybody has a story

disregarded, by the wayside. It never failed. A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Rita knew better than most that doctors can be reluctant to admit it when they do not have the answer to a question. If no good answer presents itself, some will sooner give a bad answer than no answer at all. She did not tell Mrs. Vaughan this.

if you can only learn to see them. The truth had been there all along, only now had I seen

At last, after all the tale telling and all the yarn spinning, after the smoke screens and the trick mirrors and the double bluffs, I knew.

All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

He had given up trying to make her believe only what was true, she had been raised to the kind of religion that could admit no difference between what was true and what was good.