Quotes About Truth

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

The truth is I want to make music that people enjoy.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.