Quotes About Truth

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe in me. They respect my opinion. At least I have an opinion, and I'm not trying to play it safe. I don't go around saying, 'I think everyone is great, and the world is fantastic.' Everyone has opinions. They just don't say it.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

I have never stolen. I am not a thief.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.