Quotes About Truth

Trump's inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

If I tweet out 'Trumpcare will cause 22 million people to lose coverage,' I try to make sure that it is as accurate as it can be.

I published my first book, 'Drinking & Tweeting,' when I first started 'Housewives' and was being portrayed as a fun girl who spoke the truth.

Just because someone says something, whether it's at the podium during the briefing or the president tweets, I can't always assume that's factual. That's insane. We have to be very quick on our toes in fact checking.

My favorite topical tweets are the ones that put a tweet in context so it illuminates a deeper truth or societal trend.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

I am not by any means a philosopher, although I have worked with some talented people in the discipline. But certain philosophical concepts deeply inform the way I think about the world. The idea of 'opposing truths at extremes' is a powerful concept that I came to appreciate in my twenties.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they're all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do. It's all true.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.