Quotes About Truth

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.

Liars need to have good memories.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.