Truth Quotes
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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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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
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False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.
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The poets are wrong of course. But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.
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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.
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Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
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Never break faith with the truth.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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When you and the truth speak to me, I do not listen to the truth. I listen to you.
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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
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Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
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Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.
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There is truth in wine and children.
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The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.
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Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.
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Never assume the obvious is true.
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Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
