Quotes About Truth

'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

Obviously I don't hate America. I do believe that we are becoming - and I can only judge it by my lifetime, 'cause I don't know what it was like in the 1800s - but it just seems that as a nation, we are becoming really, really nasty, and not concerned with any kind of truth.

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What does it mean to be born? What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How do we live a life of meaning? What is justice? What is truth? What is beauty? What does our past say about our present? How do we defy radical evil?

Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality—are ignored and ridiculed.

Know thyself' was Socrates' challenge, a challenge both to personal memory and to honesty.

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

All new information comes from Tao. All old information came from Tao.

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all.

Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.