Quotes About Truth

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

I think a common misconception about a small town in rural America is that everyone believes the same way, and nothing could be further from the truth.

Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.

Even if it's just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.

My business affairs are entirely proper, and no amount of smear, rumour or innuendo will alter that fact.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

I can smell a liar like a fart in a lift!

People for the most part can smell lies.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

People can smell a fake.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.