Quotes About Truth

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

I don't care if people get angry about that, believing the rubbish that vaccinations cause trouble or make the child worse or something. That's not what I believe. I think it's important for me to say.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

One man's faith is another man's delusion. . . .

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

The courtroom oath--to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth--is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath--they couldn't! Indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on the foundation of not telling the whole truth. It is the job of the defense attorney--especially when representing the guilty--to prevent, by all lawful means, the whole truth from coming out.

In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

Rape, Boylan pointed out, is the only crime in which the victim is presumed to be lying.

When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Those who would assail The Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from The inhospitable board. the hospitality was a cold as the ices.

There is an overwhelming inclination to keep the unsavory particulars hidden from public view, to pretend the calamity never occurred. Thus it has always been, and probably always will be. As Aeschylus, the illustrious Greek tragedian, noted in the fifth century B.C., "In war, truth is the first casualty.