Jim Butcher Quotes

We need proof in our society.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I have to be seen to be believed

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

Seeing is not always believing.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

I feel honesty always works.