Quotes About Truth

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

One learns one's mystery at the price of one's innocence.

Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Los hombres son todos iguales, cuando se sienten mal, no quieren reconocerlo.

It is often assumed that a symbol, while not necessarily representing a truth, represents a belief, and so speaks directly for a historical frame of mind.

All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

You know what I feel for you. You have known it for years. Let us not, you and I, alone here, pretend that you don't. You know I love you. I always have. I always will

If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.

I told you it was foolish. But feelings do not have to be wise. Feelings just are.

Truth can well out of a man like blood from a wound, and it can be just as disconcerting to look at.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.

And a Fool is supposed to be wise?

I am a minstrel. I know more about lying than you will ever discover. And minstrels know that sometimes lies are what a man needs most. In order to make a new truth of them.

But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity.

I lied!' I spat my whisper at him. 'I knew you read my journal. I knew you read my dreams. I wrote there what I thought would hurt you most! I lied to hurt you. For letting him be dead while you lived. For being loved by him more than he loved me!' I took a breath. 'He loved you more than he ever loved any of the rest of us!

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

In politics, appearance matters more than truth.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

opinions may have truth in them but that truth must be free of opinions.

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also.

Do you begrudge me that I am who I truly am? Should I pretend otherwise for the sake of pleasing you? If I did, it would be a lie. Would you rather love a lie than know me as I truly am?