The Will To Truth Quotes

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

In a myriad of ways you tell one truth.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

The truth will form and fall apart again.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

There is no light greater than truth and it shines at the heart of all creation.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever