Quotes About Truth

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

I just get tired of the same rehashing of lies and myths.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

There are so many myths about us.

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

I am not delusional. Listen, I am not naive to the fact that people are not shouting my name all over the state of California.

My mom is really naive - she thinks that because she is honest, other people will be honest too. That's not the way it works.

Naked is the best disguise.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul. Every song was like a movie, a unique and very different vignette.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

In my music, I bare it all; it's really naked.

What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.

To know God's name is to know God.

I think authenticity is the name of the game.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.