Quotes About Truth

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.

You're stealing people's secrets. You convince them to give up their life and imagine the life you've created is real or more interesting. If it's a good play, they'll cry or think private thoughts about their lives or laugh.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Not saying that we are realer than most people, but because Chi is so segregated, first of all, we have to be diverse comedians and be able to make a lot of different people laugh. And Chicago comics, we're OK with who we are in our truth. That stems from Bernie Mac and a lot of other greats who came before me.

The biggest thing is the heart. If you find the heart in what you do, if it's stage work, set work, modeling, you find the heart of it, that's where the truth actually stems from. Our true personality shines from within.

There's so many stories to tell in Hollywood in the Golden Age that stems from truth.

Rasta is to know. Rasta is to answer, which is the final step.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

When I stepped into the industry, I was dealt this bizarre persona of being this sarcastic fashionista 'it girl' who is friends with loads of celebrities. That couldn't be further from the truth.

I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the courthouse steps - was all baloney. I used to say, 'I know reporters. We're not like that.' But we are.

Every dramatist will tell you that they know deep down what happened in the course of making that film and to what degree they took steps that were convenient and to what degree they took steps in telling their story that were dishonest. You know in your heart of hearts.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

As Orwell once wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"—most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.

Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

was a moral victory simply to question the official presentation of truth and posit an alternative by documenting observable reality.