Quotes About Truth

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

In true love you want your partner to be happy. In false love you want your partner.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

Think what you want, this is what we are.

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.