Quotes About Truth

We are wanderers, place shifters, the cosmic homeless. This is not a modern truth, and Achilles is not some new kind of existentialist hero. It is the oldest truth of all, surviving uncomfortably into the modern world of cities and overkings, diplomacy and accommodation, the power structures and the proliferation of stuff which the Mediterranean world provides.

is a Naked, and Open day light, that doth not shew the Masques, and Mummeries, and Triumphs of the world, halfe so Stately, and daintily, as candlelights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearle, that sheweth best by day: But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond, or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie doth ever adde Pleasure.

We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

We all reinvent our pasts, but writers are in a class of their own

In our family histories, the frontier between fact and fiction is vague, especially in the record of events that took place before we were born, or when we were too young to record them accurately; there are few maps to these remote regions, and only the occasional sign to guide the explorer.

The most notorious liar, I am disposed to believe, tells the fair truth at least twenty times for once that he seriously and deliberately lies; and, as in the most cautious the disposition to believe is apt to prevail over that to doubt and distrust; so in those who are the most regardless of truth, the natural disposition to tell it prevails upon most occasions over that to deceive, or in any respect to alter or disguise it.

But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?

Here are people who refused to cheat, who eagerly sought out the truth and shrank from neither poetry nor terror, the two poles of our globe - since poetry does exist in the world, in certain events, at rare moments. And there's also no shortage of terror.

They can tell no one that they have gone through the looking glass and into the world where nightmares are real.

Getting rid of the mirrors—what a joke that was. Just hiding the truth. All those smashed mirrors in the town dump. All that bad luck circling back to her.

no conspiracy can survive exponential growth.

I'd met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.

I know a lie when I hear one.

I wished I could show Sunny the inside of my mind. To peel back the flesh and bone and white matter and show only the raw truth of me.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us!

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing. Ciro

Children need to see delight in the eyes of adults, if only to give them a sense that happiness is within reach, even when it isn't. Adults should be full of possibility, so the children might develop a sense of adventure. Children should live with the confidence that they are loved. Love frees them to embrace adventure, to seek truth, and to take care of one another.

You know what my mother always told me? ...That all the answers to all your questions are already inside of you. You just have to listen.

You really believe in the power of books, don't you?" "Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

And when the moon is full and there's a lot of light, it overpowers the sparkle of the stars, so you think they're gone. But they're there. In science, the only concept you can prove is that things always change. But the truth is, they also stay the same.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.