Quotes About Truth

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

We now know that Mr. Obama lied to the American people with his pledge 'If you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance.'

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

Nowadays, the actors who say that they get plenty of scripts everyday but don't have time to go through them are nothing but big liars. The reality is - they don't even have a single script in their hand!

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

I'm a max player. Don't get mad at me because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

People that lie to me generally get banished or vanished to the planet Pluto in my mind.

I feel like as much as there's a little pocket of people who do know me, there's a whole bigger pocket that doesn't and I want them to know me and understand who I am for real before making pre-judgments.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.