Quotes About Truth

Yes, this... Urcheon... speaks the truth. Roegner did swear to give him that which he did not expect. It looks as if our lamented king was an oaf as far as a woman's affairs are concerned, and couldn't be trusted to count to nine. He confessed the truth on his death-bed, because he knew what I'd do to him if he'd admitted it earlier. He knew what a mother, whose child is disposed of so recklessly, is capable of.

And I, Sheldon Skaggs, declare there's not an ounce of lies in what you say—and I can tell the lies from the truth because I was there at Sodden. I stood against the Nilfgaard invaders with an axe in my hand …

A predire il futuro sono buoni tutti. E lo fanno tutti, perché è facilissimo. La vera arte è predirlo in maniera giusta.

Why have you gone so red, crimson as a poppy? You wanted to know, didn't you? So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest reigns. And it's just as hard to compete with you people in murdering as it is in screwing—

So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reigns.

In una bocca chiusa, bada bene alle mie parole, non può volare nessuna mosca della merda.

for verily I do say to you that those magicians are like whitened graves, beautiful on the outside but full of putrefaction and rotten bones on the inside!

Prawda, ?e to ogromna ró?nica? – Ogrom tej ró?nicy umknÄ…Å' jakoÅ› mojej uwadze.

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

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.

What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

That's the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.

The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.

Ludzie nie pragn? ?eczy wymy?lonych, poci?ga ich tylko to, co zobaczyli wcze?niej.

Un voyage du pays du roi Ubu au pays du vampire Dracula ne peut pas renfermer de souvenirs auxquels on puisse croire plus tard, comment on croit, par exemple, à l'existence de Paris, de Stonehenge ou de la place Saint-Marc. (p. 22)

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

A wise person seeks to make peace with the truth, especially when it's personal and even when it hurts.

You see, the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe

Be careful about what you think you know. Because you can't always believe everything you think.