Quotes About Truth

But how shall I tell ye all these things," he said, the line of his mouth twisting. "And then say to you—it is only you I have ever loved? How should you believe me?

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

I was born almost exactly nine months after my parents' marriage," he said, giving me a hard look. "Did they deceive my father? Or did my mother play the whore with her groom before she wed?

Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself.

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.

It's nice to have someone to come home to and get the honest truth about all aspects of life.

People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that's not necessarily true.

Nobody really knows everything, and they can only assume.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

I am an atheist.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

I say what I think, and if somebody attacks me unfairly, I definitely tell them.

The roles that I always get attracted to are roles where the material is based on an actual person.

I just want to make something that is true to itself and that interests me; otherwise, how can I have the audacity to think it's going to interest anybody else?

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

We have to express ourselves in the most true and authentic way.

Just be authentic and be you.