Quotes About Truth

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.

Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

What if what you know isn't what people want to hear?

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want?

They think we're intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don't want them to learn the truth." Rachel

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

There's a lot of falses - out there and if I take up for myself, it's a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I'm like look, I don't want no problems with nobody.

If it's controversy out there, or if it's some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That's just what I'm all about.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.