Quotes About Truth

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Truth cannot be defeated.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.