Terry Pratchett Quotes

Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.

What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

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

We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.