Quotes About Truth

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

honesty is hard work.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

All true work is sacred.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

I think the most important thing I learned from my dad is the importance of telling the truth...treat other people well, work hard at the job and tell the truth.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.