George R. R. Martin Quotes

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

I think it's important to have perspective and to look at what you don't necessarily want to see.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it