Quotes About Truth

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.' She sighed, as if that was an accident. As if she hadn't spent an hour preening herself before the mirror. 'Facts are facts. Stating them isn't a gift. You only prove you're not blind.' She yawned, stretched in her saddle, made him wait a moment longer. 'But I'll hear more.

Years, back, when they first made him a sergeant, he'd imagined the officers much have all the answers. When he was given his commission, he'd imagined the generals must have all the answers. When King Orso made him a general, he'd imagined the Closed counsel bust have all the answers. Now, as a lord marshal, he finally knew it for an absolute fact. No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any.

The world is a grey place. A place of half-truths. Of half-wrongs and half-rights. Yet there are things worth fighting for, and they must be pursued with all our vigour and commitment. Half-measures achieve nothing.' 'What

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

ever deeper into jealous depression. They tell you drink makes you happy, but what they mean is it makes happy folk happier. They don't tell you that it makes unhappy folk more fucking unhappy than ever.

Brand stared in sick disbelief. He'd been sure among all those lads someone would speak, for they were honest enough. Or Hunnan would tell his part in it, for he was a respected master-at-arms. The king or the queen would draw out the truth, for they were wise and righteous. The gods wouldn't allow such an injustice to pass. Someone would do something. Maybe, like him, they were all waiting for someone else to put things right.

Knowledge isn't always a gift, d'you see? Sometimes it's better we be swaddled in the comforting darkness of ignorance.

Maybe her father hadn't been quite the hero she always reckoned him. Maybe her mother wasn't quite the villain either. Maybe no one's all one or all the other.

Disbelieve this sword, it will still cut you. He is God. We all walk His path regardless

There's nothing unpatriotic about the truth," muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.

A good liar tells as much truth as he can. That way you never know what you're getting.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

Vanity, a loud voice and a loose relationship with the truth,' whispered Zuri. 'All the qualities of a successful politician.

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

La ignorancia es la más dulce de las medicinas.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

Olyan rendben tartsd a hazugságaidat, mint a télire eltett vet?magot.

It's a newsbill. They tell you what's happening.' Orso thought about that. 'Or they tell you what to think about what's happening.' He thought more. 'Or the really successful ones just confirm what you already think about what's happening.

A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.

Aye, well, I've said a lot of shit in my time that didn't add up to much.