Quotes About Truth

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.