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Truth Quotes by Orson Scott Card
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
- I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.
- I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the…
- Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper
- I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the…
- Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
- But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only…
- For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects…
- Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this:…
- America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding…
- When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be…
- Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.
- A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree,…
- Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to…
- Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You…
- Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever…
- So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has…
- It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons,…
More Truth Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov