Quotes about truth

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  1. She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.

    p. 71

  2. Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

    p. 237

  3. Of course I don't want the old religious dope. But I don't want just the new science dope either. I want the truth.

  4. Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

  5. “Truth and information are not the same thing. I promise you that’s a fact.”

    “So you told yourself. But you have to admit that they do coincide often enough to let us all get around in the world safely.”

    p. 183

  6. Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.

  7. You’ll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

  8. A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes.

  9. The best lies have some truth in 'em ... to give 'em flavor, as it were.

  10. The truth is in our bones, for flesh decays and bone endures.

  11. Is it treason to say a man is mortal?

  12. There is truth in the flames, but it is not always easy to see.