Quotes About Truth

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

Whatever you write, let it be the truth.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

The facts of life are conservative.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith." "To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.

I will never understand the whole world or even one country. All I can do is try to understand the truth and lies in the simplest choices I face every day.

Joy and truth both have a way of peeking through any dark curtain.

I have spent all my years accepting sad truths. —Quebrado

What more do I need? I don't know how my book will end. All I know is that love is not the modern invention of rebellious young girls. Love is ancient. A legend. The truth.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

Truth is such a naked lady," Mr. Campion spoke softly. "Apparently in well-regulated country families no one is so indelicate as to stare at all of her at once.

Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know?

That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

Different versions of a true story

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.

We believe what we want to believe." page 109

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret. —SYMMACHUS, 384 C.E.