Quotes About Truth

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

If you're honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out.

The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

The truth is you are the pure Spirit. The second truth is that there is a all-pervading Divine power of love. This power of love does all the living work.