Truth Quotes

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Understanding

• Alas! the great world goes its way,And takes its truth from each new day;They do not quit, nor can retain,Far less consider it again.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • May
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Nature
  • Health
  • Disease

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Opinion
  • Forever
  • Blood

• The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • America

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • True
  • Spirit
  • Stuff

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Together
  • You
  • Lies

• Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Good
  • Truth

• Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Moving

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Imagination
  • Green

• The sad truth is that the truth is sad.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Truth
  • Sad

• I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Truth
  • Conversation
  • Looking

• Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Truth
  • Bad

• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • Question
  • Difficult

• As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Bad
  • Picture
  • Moral

• I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Truth

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Power
  • Philosophy
  • Philosophical

• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Funny

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