Quotes About Truth

It is certain because it is impossible.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Reality, in general, in my opinion, has gotten blurred.

The only way that you can ever continue to have a career and have success and have hits is if you are honest to yourself in the same way that you were in the beginning.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

When I write something, I can't remember in the end if this is a memory or if it's not - I'm talking about fiction. So for me, it's the same thing.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.

My music, you know I'm not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I'm talking about.

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

I just have an inability to lie.

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.