Truth Quotes
-
Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.
-
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.
Colson Whitehead
-
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
-
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
-
Saying I took my clean water for granted is an overstatement. To tell you the truth, I didn't even think about it.
-
The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.
-
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
-
When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.
-
When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: "Did you always want to be a princess growing up?" And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. And I think a lot of women feel that way. And the fact that I am actually her is such a dream come true. It's such a pinch me moment. And the fact that I am Catwoman in Chris Nolan's Gotham to Christian Bale's Batman is unbelievably cool.
-
He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
-
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
-
When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
-
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
-
We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.
-
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
-
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
-
Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.
-
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.
-
I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
-
It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
-
We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.
-
I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.
-
Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
-
Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
