Charles D. Broad Quotes
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Quotes to Explore
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Tell the truth.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
