Quotes About Verity

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

I know what science this has come to be. All rights and laws are still transmitted Like an eternal sickness of the race,— From generation unto generation fitted, And shifted round from place to place. Reason becomes a sham, Beneficence a worry: Thou art a grandchild, therefore woe to thee! The right born with us, ours in verity,

HERE IS THE truth

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

Every rumor carries a seed of truth.

the only thing of any use is the truth.

truth is reality

It matters what's true. - Ann Druyan

The truth is a good thing.

Reality is the best reassurance of all.

I'm partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

We've got to tell the unvarnished truth

I don't say it was likely -- I only say it is true.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

I am sure that it is the truth.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Religious feeling is as much a verity as any other part of human consciousness; and against it, on the subjective side, the waves of science beat in vain.

Verity: thirty seconds it lasted, green sunlight breaking the cloud on the horizon. Then the light winked out below the haze again and all three pilots were left blinded in the dull gloom of a showery autumn afternoon.

Verity: The Puss Moth's lovely engine (this is Maddie talking; she is a bit mad) had only HALF THE POWER of Maddie's motorbike. They were cleaning the bits of turf out of it with wirebrushes.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.