Quotes About Truth

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

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.

I will a hundred percent sell out. Because I'll always be myself... my raw, authentic self.

I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.'

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

It's not about making it perfect, it's about letting it be real, sometimes raw and flawed, as long as it's true.

Documentary makers use other people's lives as their raw material, and that is morally indefensible.

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

What is real is beyond all reach.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

That concerns me, that we're reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.

The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

Acting is all about reacting. When you look into the eyes of your co-star and there is truth in his eyes, giving a reaction becomes so much easier.

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

I'm going to shock you with the truth. I'm just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I'm just going to watch your reaction.

Everything is real. It is one of our golden rules for the show. We won't do it otherwise because the show is built around real reaction, ours included.