Quotes About Truth Quotes

“Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant."

- First Chaplain Erebus”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“The truth is useless if no one can hear it.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods

“This
is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not
in the least an essential element of verity.”
― Geroge MacDonald

“More important than finding the truth –
is finding the reason why one needs to lie.”
― Mystqx Skye

“The traveller is the one who takes his truth with him into strange lands. The moment he forgets his truth, he ceases to be a traveller, and becomes the strange land.”
― Chris Wraight, Warhawk

“At the root of your lies, is there any truth, father?’
The darkness becomes a forest, dark trunks reaching to an untouchable sky, roots crawling out and down into the abyss beneath. The man on the chair is sitting on the snow-covered ground, a fire burning before Him. A shadow moves out of the dark between the trees. It is huge, sable-furred and silver-eyed. It drags its shadow with it as it comes forwards. It pauses on the edge of the light.
‘You claim to be a man,’says the wolf, ‘but that is a lie revealed to any that can see you here. You deny you wish godhood, but you raise up an empire to praise you. You call yourself the Master of Mankind, and perhaps that is the only truth you ever spoke – that you wish to make your children slaves.”
― John French, The Solar War

“More important that finding the truth –
is finding the reason why one needs to lie.”
― Mystqx Skye

“The truth, Zardu Layak, is the greatest force in the universe. It is not kind. It is not a shield against cruelty. It is the most dangerous thing you can hold, and it is all that matters.”
― John French, Slaves to Darkness

“You value appearance more than truth?’
‘Appearance is truth. If I hoard billions of credits but dress like a beggar I will be treated as such. Likewise, I may be drowning in debt, but if I carry myself as a success then that is how I shall be treated. You obsess over your view of the world, of forcing others to accept it. But you don’t realise the world is shaped by perception. If you know the truth, but all others think otherwise, then you are the liar.”
― Denny Flowers, Fire Made Flesh

“The greatest truth we can follow is the truth in our own heart.”
― PJ Ferguson, The New Be-Attitudes: 68 Ways to Shift Your Life from Crappy ...to Happy!

“How much of this nightmare might have been avoided if there was but one amongst us who could speak one word to another that was true?”
― David Guymer, Dreadwing

“I have used up my days believing I serve the Throne above all, but this is the filth I am dragged into.’
‘Me too,’ I said. ‘That’s something I might have said of my own life. Nothing wears an honest face. Those we admire disappoint us, or betray us. What truth may be found is uglier and more cruel than our worst expectations.”
― Dan Abnett, Penitent

“The truth is a weapon and a shield.’

- Primarch Sanguinius”
― John French, Mortis

“What better mirror is there than the face of an old friend? Only those we love have the power to show us our true selves.”
― Graham McNeill, The Reflection Crack'd

“So it is with nephilla and their masters, especially the Architect of Fate. The balance of power is never certain and lies are so easily cloaked in the lightest truth. From that first encounter to the last on the eve of Caliban’s death, I thought I was in control and forged a path for Caliban and the Order. In truth, I was waylaid long ago by a false map and led like a fool into the most treacherous depths, from which I never freed myself.
It is always the way when dealing with the powers of the warp. Your first steps always seem to be in the right direction, but you will never know at what point you started following their road, because after a time you forget there was a destination at all, and all that remains is the journey.”
― Gav Thorpe, Luther: First of the Fallen

“Truth is everywhere but so is falsehood and neither is discriminating.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

“We don’t need storytellers. We need soothsayers. I never said I am a storyteller. I said I am a soothsayer. I say the sooth.”
― Giannina Braschi, Putinoika