Quotes About Truth

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership.

You have to realistic about these things.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman

I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!

I will confess!" shrieked Teufel, "I will confess!" "Excellent," said Glokta brightly. "Excellent," said Severard. "Etherer," said Practical Frost.

When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.

The man is a monster. The worst I have ever seen, in fact, since I last looked in the mirror. The truth? I am rotting too. I am buried alive, and already rotting. If I was not such a coward I would kill myself, but I am, and so I must content myself with killing others in the hope that one day, if I can only wade deep enough in blood, I will come out clean.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Winning teaches you nothing," said Tunny. "You see what a man really is when he loses.

The food of fear is ignorance, Mother Gundring used to say. The death of fear is knowledge. When you study a race of men you find they are just men like any others.

The skies make no special dispensation for Magi, boy, they piss on everyone the same.

Well, everyone lies. The difference between a hero and a villain is whether anyone believes him.

But that's the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Amazing the rubbish idiots will believe if you shout it loudly enough.

lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.