Quotes About Truth

How many of us never find a way to say the one thing we must?

For she knew the rights and the wrongs… The truths and the lies… The betrayed and the betrayer.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

his hardest cases, where parents, upstanding people, had reported children missing but were later proven to have lied to cover up abuse, an accidental death or a homicide. He had looked into the eyes of mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and friends as they lied, watched their tears, even believed that they were convinced in the truth of their own lies until the facts, the evidence, emerged and the incontrovertible truth was revealed.

man was confessing to him.

Americans prefer to isolate villains who despoil a preexisting innocence, rather than admit that there might not have been any innocence there in the first place.

Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.

If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth. Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in. Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts. No one is a bad person in his or her own mind. We are all noble protagonists.

Hope is a lie that becomes true

Humans see what they want to see.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

I had a crush on Percy, Nico spat. That's the truth. That's the big secret.

Does truth have a moral?

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

There were a lot of answers I might've given, from I knew that to LIAR! to Yeah right, and I'm Zeus. - Percy, after Quintus says that he is Daedalus

Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.

I believe you, Sadie. Oh really. I'm holding the bloody feather of truth, and you believe me. Well, thanks.

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine.

Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I'd fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who'd turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives "breaking your heart" a new meaning.

Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say "tell the truth," and when you do, they don't believe you. What's the point?

Such is human memory... you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.

Nothing? Favonius cried. The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth? Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping. The one you care for most.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn't need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.