Quotes About Truth

Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.

It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

Reality is often unkind to legends.

We will discover the truth. And face it. And whatever it is, we will go after them. And we will kill them all, like the bastards we are.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself." p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz:

Veronica: "Perhaps. If Sa'aw had but a male aspect, but recall the old, true worship of Sa'aw, male and female, bird, beast, and plant, earth, fire, air, and water are all honored in Sa'aw and Sa'aw manifests in all of them. If the Divine is also female and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

The shortest distance between a man and his goal was often a lie

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

And he is a Farseer," Dutiful suddenly interjected, startling both of us. "One whose vow to his family has already cost him many things. So, this time, as your prince, I command this, FitzChivalry Farseer. Keep your vow, to yourself. Be as true to your own heart as you were to Verity's, and to King Shrewd's before him. That is the command of your king.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right

Of all the people I could lie to, I'd always been best at lying to myself.

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked. And the answer to that question may be one a man cannot hear and live.

I told myself that I clenched my lips shut because it was the nobler thing to do, to keep these secrets to myself was better than to let the truth destroy her. Did I lie to myself, then? Don't we all?

Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins.

enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

when all the things in my life seem to collide and contradict each other, I pick one set of facts and believe those, no matter what." I lifted my eyes and met his as I asked him, "Do you blame me?

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

fell silent. "When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start

That finblead lights everything in one's life with a terrible radiance. All relationships are illuminated for what they are and for what they truly were in the past. All illusions melt away. The false is revealed as starkly as the true.