Quotes About Truth

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

I hate this, I want this to stop, how are we supposed to live with this, and how am I supposed to walk away? You're real and I hate you for it.

The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

God wants someone to defend him.

What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.

Paris Hilton said something interesting to me once: she said, 'I just tell everyone what they want to hear, and I do what I want to do.'

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.

Young people want someone to tell them the truth. They want to be inspired.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.