Quotes About Truth

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

If you're going to educate the public and tell them how things happen in the courtroom, then you really owe them the duty to do it right. Don't misinform.

I'm just trying to make movies simply about life. Naturally, when I'm doing that, horror, violence, and all those kinds of things get mixed in. All those things happen in reality.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

God is bigger than people think.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

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.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Hollywood is built on delusion. Everyone thinks they're more important than they are. Nothing is real.