Quotes About Truth

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.

You may have slandered an honest man. Or you may have struck a blow for justice. I don't know. The point is... neither do you.

Truth is always War's first victim, the old saying went.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?

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

How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

His further study of humanity had revealed just how much people could convince themselves that their own needs were those of the gods, and not the other way around.

There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity.

It was a curious insight into Vorkosigan that he should so automatically accept her bare word as binding; he evidently thought along the same lines himself. The

Indeed. On average, one-half of all supplicants to come before a judge's bench must depart angry and disappointed. But not, by that, necessarily wronged..

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

What did it say that Nikys had better luck getting a straight answer from a chaos demon than a man? Nothing new, more's the pity.

Miles watched the evening shadows flowing up along the backbone of the Dendarii range, high and massive in the distance. How small those mountains looked from space! Little wrinkles on the skin of a globe he could cover with his hand, all their crushing mass made invisible. Which was illusory, distance or nearness? Distance, Miles decided. Distance was a damned lie. Had his father known this? Miles suspected so.

People can get almost anything wrong," sighed Oswyl. "Theology cannot be an exception.

I figure we can tell events exactly as they happened, just leave out that one tiny detail." "You figure, do you? You must be using a different kind of math than the rest of the universe does.

Could he stop denying himself, and deny others instead? He tested the phrases on his tongue. No, you are wrong, all of you, Temple and Court and folk in the streets. You always were wrong. I am not…am not… what? And are these the only terms I can think in, these shouted nos? Ah, habit.

Uneasy awareness of his duty to report the truth to the sealmaster warred now with fear, in his heart. Fear and rage. Who placed that grotesque geas in me, and how? Why was I made a witless tool? And can it happen again?

And as for absolute power, you sir, know what a false chimera that notion is. A shaky illusion, based on—God knows what. Magic. Sleight of hand. Believing your own propaganda.

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.

Los detalles corroboraban lo que ella decía que era, y eso se agregaba a una sensación sólida, aunque subliminal, de algo cierto que tal vez escapaba a la paranoia profesional de los que trabajan en seguridad

Although demons can lie. So can humans, muttered Des. And rather more often.