Quotes About Truth

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Misinformation is a virus unto itself. And Fox News is the vector.

The truth is it's more probable that the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab that was known to both be tinkering and souping up viruses, and also had reports known of lax security.

If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We're desperate for instant, visible, measurable ways of knowing God, instead of trusting that it's complicated and a mystery.

If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.