Quotes About Truth

Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth--that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.

To be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.

Don't give me truth, just give me gossip And skeletons from people's closets, I wanna be normal And millions buy it, I am blinded by The SUN.

I think they had something to do with the killing of Mr. Joseph, miss." She laughed, as all adults seem to do when they don't believe something.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight.... A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

In fact, scientific results are a careful attempt to objectively measure reality, and although they may be refined over time, they are always our best hope of getting at the truth.

The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Let the record reflect: the American people are a bunch of suckers.

I think the beauty of the Internet is that it's giving a lot of people the opportunity to reach people around the world that they never would have been able to, and for people to tell their own stories where they don't see themselves reflected in mainstream media, or the media is misrepresenting the truth, right.

I always want to tell the truth. It doesn't have to be a pretty truth, and it doesn't have to be a life-changing and life-threatening truth like 'Chi-Raq.' But I want to tell someone's truth in an effort to inspire people to see themselves reflected on the screen.

I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.

Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.

Monsters can be scary, and they're great, but they're only really scary when they're reflections of us and they show you the things you're scared of might be true about your own nature.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.