Quotes About Truth

Things always work according to their nature.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

Let there be cultivated an awareness in every member's heart of his own potential for bringing others to a knowledge of the truth. Let him work at it. Let him pray with great earnestness about it

What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

I, like many people, had some sort of preconception about Madonna. One of the preconceptions was that she had the extraordinary work ethic, which turned out to be absolutely true.