Quotes about truth

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

I heard too many answers, I met too many gods. Abroad they call on Christ, but if you fare southward long enough it is Muhammad; and eastward it is Gautama Buddha, save where they say the world is a dream of Brahm, or offer to a host of gods and ghosts and elves like ours in these Northlands. And almost every man I asked told me that his folk know the truth while the rest are benighted. Could I but hear a word I felt even half sure of—

The trouble wasn’t getting answers. It was finding the presence of mind to accept them.

Would you prefer a reinforcement of what you already want to believe, or do you seek the truth?

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth to seek it out.

In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

It wasn’t a lie. It was a different truth.

“I’m a Veristitalian,” Jasnah said. “We search for answers in the past, reconstructing what truly happened. To many, writing a history is not about truth, but about presenting the most flattering picture of themselves and their motives. My sisters and I choose projects that we feel were misunderstood or misrepresented, and in studying them hope to better understand the present.”

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)