Truth Quotations | Page 5

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

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.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I had pictured journalism as I'd seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.

I've played with so many people that I never really noticed that I was playing with so many people until after it was compiled on the Internet. I just kept going. I haven't even heard half the records I've played on, to tell you the truth.

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.

I don't really lie about anything, I have to be honest. I like to live with the truth.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

There is no such thing as a harmless truth.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.