Quotes About Truth

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

I take UKIP very seriously. The truth is that UKIP presents an electoral challenge to all political parties. The way to defeat UKIP is not to be a better UKIP but to be a better Labour Party.

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.

I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

The truth is that the driver in policy is not the relationship between the United States and Cuba, but the relationship between Cubans, and that is far stronger than 50 years of intragovernment hostility.

The truth is I have always found it hard to get up. One of the reasons I became an actor was specifically because you get to lie in more than people with proper jobs.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.

The truth is I loved an audience.

The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.

It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.

Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

In a way, the truth is that I was dreaming to do a movie in the United States just because, as a filmmaker, I always loved the idea of trying to make movies in a different culture, in a different way. It's always interesting to make a movie abroad.

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

The truth is our friend.