“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
More from Patrick Rothfuss on Truth
“There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
“I wish I felt as calm as I look”
“They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.”
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cerv...”
Aesop
7 quotes“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You can't have capitalism without racism.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.”
Osho
6 quotes“It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They c...”