Quotes About Truth

Looking out from his window, he felt he had been granted a glimpse of a great truth, one that had been whispering at his conscience for many years: that God was not to be pressed into service merely to suit the needs of men, however righteous they believed their cause to be; that such presumption was itself a sin.

Cosa si può fare, disse, se si dedica la vita a smascherare i criminali, e a poco a poco ci si accorge che i veri criminali sono quelli per cui si lavora? Cosa si può fare quando tutti ti dicono di non preoccuparti perché tanto non ci puoi fare niente ed è successo molto tempo fa? Adesso Charlie lo guardava in un modo diverso. Immagino che si perda la ragione. Oppure può succedere di peggio. La si può trovare.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -

All his depths were on the surface.

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

is one of the most potent myths in politics, believe me.

Faith that cannot withstand the truth is not a faith worth holding.

Maybe so, but in politics how things look is often more important than what they are.

Fury of truth: fury of righteousness become angelic evil demonic good?

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

A wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.

The Truth is simple but the Way of Man is hard. First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes. Thou art God. Know that and the Way is opened. I love you. Thou art God. -Valentine Michael Smith

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.

Is the market high only because of some irrational exuberance — wishful thinking on the part of investors that blinds us to the truth of our situation?

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

A secret spoken finds wings.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

There's an old saying in the Two Rivers Rand said dryly. 'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' Another said, The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.