Quotes About Truth

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

I chose to pursue a career in physics because there the truth isn't so easily bent.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.

Humility is truth.

My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.