Quotes About Truth

I was fascinated by all of it. The sounds of the theater and the audience, their rapture when a play took over and moved them and held them quietly... When the audience was truly moved, it was absolutely quiet. They were in a communion because they were learning the truth about themselves.

A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare when that kind of thing happens. But it is important, and it is real.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that fueled the rise of Trump and brought America to the point where a third of the country will casually shrug off hard facts about everything from the size of inaugural crowds to the crime rate among immigrants.

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.