Quotes About Truth

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

Since we came to this world we only heard lies. But it's the lies that make it interesting. The truth would devastate us

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Un libro de verdad afecta en mayor o menor grado a lo que pensamos y, por tanto, a lo que somos. Cambia en cierta medida, el mundo que consiste, en parte, en la idea que tenemos de él, ya lo adorne y agrande, ya consuma su ruina No conozco libro, cuando ha importado, que no haya hecho temblar el suelo de la existencia, dislocado la visión pobre, burda que yo tomaba, antes de que la quebrantara, por la realidad.

From Boulez, an authorized biography by Joan Peyser) At the chapel door he [a priest associated with a school Boulez attended] asked me if what he had been told was true: that Boulez no longer believed in God. I said it was...

Symbolic power is a power of creating things with words. It is only if it is true, that is, adequate to things, that a description can create things. In this sense, symbolic power is a power of consecration or revelation, a power to conceal or reveal things which are already there.

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It takes a good memory to keep up a lie.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n'ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything .)

I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.

A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.

I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

The visual elements of the videos, the makeup and the costumes... these things have nothing to do with justice and truth, but nonetheless, it really changes the experience of the video.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.