Truth Quotes
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Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.
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In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.
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That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
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Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
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Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
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Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.
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I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
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I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion.
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The truth never wears out.
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Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
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I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
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The truth doesn't die. The desire for liberty cannot be fully suppressed.
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Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
