Truth Quotes
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The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.
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But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.
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The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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Truth is a point of view about things.
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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
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It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.
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People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
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If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.
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If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.
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Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
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Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth
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I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
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A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
