Quotes About Truth

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

None of us should play party to any corporate warfare. We cannot become pawns in the hands of corporate giants' warfare to constantly bully the government, to throw misinformation to the public, tell part-truth and part-story to the public.

If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

The truth is, every situation is different and has its own unique set of circumstances. That is reality, plain and simple.

Im not rude, I'm just plain honest.

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.