Quotes About Truth

When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn't always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.

I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

I refuse to lie to children.

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

As I am a seeker of truth, I refuse to believe in every bit of dogma as a fact.

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

In the Middle Eastern culture, it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

Regardless of what is on the Internet, I'm actually only 29 years old - and holding.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

If what you're writing is genuine, regardless of whether it sounds cliche or people wouldn't necessarily think it's the most brilliant metaphor in the world, it's always important to be genuine with what you're writing; at least, that's how I feel.

I've learned that even just as an individual, regardless of who I am, and regardless of who anyone is, to really be true to yourself and your own self expression and really use your voice for that.