Quotes About Truth

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music.

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.

It's hard enough to find out about the things the universe prefers to keep hidden without our government, which somebody you know must have voted for, covering up what has already been found. Sometimes, of course, it hides things to save its own neck and sometimes seemingly just for the hell of it.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.

I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.