Quotes About Truth

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

As I get older, my perspective changes, and I just see how relationships aren't always what they appear to be. It's one of those sad but true things. We can see sometimes when people are becoming distant in all the things that create breaking apart, as painful as it is, and at the same time, still appreciating that person.

The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.

In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.

'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

I love, love, love Lauryn Hill's 'MTV Unplugged.' It just helps relax me. I love just where she was in her space with that album and the truth that she was telling.

I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie!

I don't put the truth in a cage. I try to find a way to release it.

The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself.

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.