Quotes about truth

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

Tyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.

Have you ever considered that too many answers are the same as no answer at all? ... When a king dies, fancies sprout like mushrooms in the dark.

The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

“Maester Luwin says there’s nothing in dreams that a man need fear.”

“There is,” said Jojen.

“What?”

“The past. The future. The truth.”

It is a lonely and arduous excursion, a sufficient test of courage and sincerity: for most men prefer to dwell in comfortable ignorance upon the lower slopes, and there to make of their obvious characteristics a drapery which shall veil the naked truth.

“I don’t think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this,” he said finally.

“I don’t want to be happy,” Dahl said. “I just want to know.”

I have come to believe, based on long experience dealing with humans, that no true story ever gets told.

I sit here now with two stories, about to add lies, half-truths, or simple misunderstandings of my own, moved by some vague urge toward a completeness of things—a completion that can never be achieved.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Subjective confidence in a judgement is not a reasoned evaluation of the probability that this judgement is correct. Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.