Quotes About Truth

To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

You want me and I want you. right?" Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, "Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

People just want honest music.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

What will an angel say that the devil wants to know?

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.