Truth Quotes by Terry Pratchett

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough.”

— Terry Pratchett

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

— Terry Pratchett

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

— Terry Pratchett

“The truth shall make thee fret”

— Terry Pratchett

“Very good! Yes! Not true, but a very, very good lie!”

— Terry Pratchett

“To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.”

— Terry Pratchett

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

— Terry Pratchett

“He’d found a hard truth less hard than an easy lie. There”

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is…

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There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you…

— Terry Pratchett

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

— Terry Pratchett

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

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“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.”

— Terry Pratchett

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

— Terry Pratchett

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

— Terry Pratchett

“What will you do?” said Susan. “Lie,” said Lu-Tze happily. “It’s amazing how often that works.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Yeah, but your mate Dave says the government always hushes things up, Nobby,” said Fred. “Well, they do.” “Except he always gets…

— Terry Pratchett

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY.…

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WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.…

— Terry Pratchett

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap…

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“Once you’ve ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out…

— Terry Pratchett

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even…

— Terry Pratchett

The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by…

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Drinks like this tend to get called Traffic Lights or Rainbow's Revenge or, in places where truth is more highly valued, Hello…

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The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your…

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“Child, you’ve come here to learn what’s true and what’s not, but there’s little I can teach you that you don’t already…

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But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold,…

— Terry Pratchett

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass…

— Terry Pratchett

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out…

— Terry Pratchett

“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way…

— Terry Pratchett

“It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of…

— Terry Pratchett

“untrue. The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has…

— Terry Pratchett

The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been…

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“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME…

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“The wizards held that, as servants of a higher truth, they were not subject to the mundane laws of the city. The…

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“Truth is female, since truth is beauty rather than handsomeness; this, Ridcully reflected as the council grumbled in, would certainly explain the…

— Terry Pratchett

“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the…

— Terry Pratchett

Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

— Terry Pratchett

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

— Terry Pratchett

“Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.”

— Terry Pratchett