Quotes About Truth

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

Sometimes I think that people are not prepared to listen and discuss truths.

There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.

One important lesson I learned over and over is that, when you walk into any troubled organization, there is a delicate balance between expressing human empathy and yet not passively sweeping hard truths under the rug.

And one of the unfortunate-but-sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a culture where what is spoken about and what truths are told and what lies are told are objective any more, so my personal feeling is that you have to try to take them on.

Most of what is said by candidates on the right is half-baked truths and fabrications coated in 'patriotism or family values.'

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

When you're older, you realize a little bit more hard truths. You are who you are. And the people that like you, they like you for being you.

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

Rock n' roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it's OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

It's never too late to try authenticity.

What people think in their heart gets out, no matter how much they try to hide it.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

If we get out there trying to be inspirational, then we probably won't be.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I'm not trying to make everything this fantasy world about how I'm living this lavish life that I'm not really living.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.