Truth Quotes
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
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Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
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When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best part of two centuries, we British ruled the waves, controlled two-fifths of the planet, and believed it was our responsibility to bring civilisation to those who allegedly lacked it.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
