Quotes About Truth

But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not everything fair is good...and in every fairytale, there is a grain of truth.

And now he was glowing with happiness, pride and a sense of importance, like every liar when his lies accidentally turn out to be true.

Guard against disappointments, because appearances can deceive. Things that are really as they seem are rare. And a woman is never as she seems.

Vea -dijo el brujo-, tenías razón. - ¿Hmm? - Él es el más hermoso.

I was watching them carefully, and I know people. They weren't lying." "No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Don't mistake the stars reflected in a pond at night for those in the sky.

Pero esas mentiras, aunque eran mentiras, no estaban pensadas para engañar.

Truth is one thing, poetry another.

There may no longer be faith nor truth in the world, but surely good sense still exists. What say you, Dandelion? Is there still good sense in the world? Or do only contemptibility and contempt remain?

Those are just stories, Codringher.' 'You're right: stories. But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

Mistrust regarding me?' 'Regarding the world, Ciri. A world in which a deceptive appearance dons the mask of truth to pull the wool over the eyes of another truth - a false one, incidentally, which also tries to deceive.

La verdad es una esquirla de hielo

Truth is a shard of ice.

If you know not,' she interrupted, 'there is no place for any "but". You know not. You simply know not.

Incredible, Geralt. After so many years? How's it possible?' 'There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale,' said the Witcher quietly. 'Love and blood. They both possess a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that—' 'That what, Geralt?' 'It has to be true love.

Because a story where the decent ones die and the scoundrels live and carry on doing what they want is full of shit.

There's no such thing as devils!" yelled the poet, shaking the cat from sleep once and for all. "No such thing! To the devil with it, devils don't exist!" "True." Geralt smiled. "But, Dandilion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Something can't be a rule if there are exceptions to it. And please don't give me any banal untruths about exceptions proving the rule. Tell me something about exceptions as such." "Only one thing," she said coldly, "can be said about exceptions. They exist. Nothing more.

But he suddenly knew the truth. He knew it. He knew what she used to be. What she remembered, what she couldn't forget, what she lived with. Who she really was before she had become a sorceress.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

StÃ…â"¢ezte se roz?arování, neb dojmy klamou. Takovými, jakými se zdají být, jsou vÄ›ci jen zÃ…â"¢ídkakdy. A ženy nikdy.

For a war is raging, and disinformation is a weapon whose blade must always be kept sharp.

No,' she repeated. 'I cannot, Geralt. I cannot tell you that. That bird, begotten from the touch of your hand, will tell you. Bird? What is the essence of truth?' 'Truth,' the kestrel said, 'is a shard of ice.

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale