Quotes About Truth

The truth is, when you want a great show, it's not 'entertaining' the audience - it's you sharing with them... an experience of communion.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

For 'The Grey Album,' I'd been thinking about the good side of lying - lying as a kind of improvisatory act in black culture. Afterward, it nagged at me because there are those other kinds of lies that I think are all around us, and I was fascinated about hoaxes in general. So 'Bunk' became a natural extension of 'The Grey Album.'

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't know.'

The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

If I was guilty of anything, it was cheating on my wife, and that was it.