Quotes About Truth

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens. Our goal is to give all Americans front door access to the truth.

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don't want the public knowing about.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

People are stupid... They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be "Ourselves"?

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

For Plato, the quickening of the heart that occurred when a person saw his or her loved one was just a step in the ascent to true love, which could happen only in the mind, after the lover comprehended what was eternally true and beautiful in the beloved. Platonic love existed beyond all the blood and heat contained in the heart. This split between passion and piety, between lust and love, would resonate throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and it continues up to the present day.

The truth ain't what it used to be.

Life was half lies and half truth, and wisdom was simplv the abilitv to distinguish one from the other.