Quotes About Truth

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

Telling the truth - telling thoughtful truths - should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

A good business book teaches simple truths.