Quotes About Truth

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

To me the important thing for a comic to be is emotionally honest.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

I get on stage and realize what God has given me, and not just I sing some songs and tell a couple stories, or something that God's done. It's more like, 'OK, guys. I want to encourage you to go out to this world and show love and truth.'

Those who care about truth know that empowering and encouraging those who support rioters is the wrong course of action.

I am who I am. At the end of the day, you've got to be who you are.

I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

Most songs are not true. They're just to be entertaining.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.

Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is.

People are entitled to their opinion. I respect them, but it doesn't mean they're right.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Anything done in secret is more likely to result in terrible errors.

You can't escape from what you are.

There's no way to escape who we are.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

I must admit I have never told anyone this before, but Sister Abigail is older than my essence.