Quotes About Truth

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have it that way than masquerade as if you're totally unbiased and objective.

You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

We cannot hide from history.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. Unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.

We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equality, we can't serve justice, off of lies.

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact.

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.