Quotes About Truth

There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

I'm learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The nature of rumor is known to all.

I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

No, I care more about what God knows than what man says.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

We've had that carefree, light-hearted image of fun, fun, fun. Everyone knows it's not really like that.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.