Quotes About Truth

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.

I ask no comfort, Taran replied, but the truth, be it harsh or happy. Ah, my sweet robin, said Orddu, for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.

Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

Sanningen finns i allt om man bara kan förstå det.

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

Is—is Achren your mother?" Taran gasped and drew back fearfully. "Certainly not!" cried the girl. "I am Eilonwy

if you grow up with any kind of sense - which you sometimes make me doubt - you will very likely reach your own conclusions. They will probably be wrong. However, since they will be yours, you will feel a little more satisfied with them.

Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.

To identify faith with the holding of a certain number of beliefs that come to us from the distant past actually makes a mockery of Christian faith and reduces it to the schoolboy's definition: "Faith is believing things you know ain't true".

His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.

What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?

I said it because it's true. It's the way

Mother and Father making their customary comments (and lies, Jonas knew) about the day.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.

integrity is a disease, and you can only catch it from someone who has it.