Quotes About Truth

I've become very conscious of how easy it is for people to lie.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.

Don't say things about people that aren't true... because there are consequences for that.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

When I went through my eating disorder, I never sought medical assistance. I created myths in my head about how I should get through things, so the idea that I could surround myself with truth and feel comfortable enough to speak mine allowed me to breathe.

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

Living authentically isn't an act of courage as much as an act of survival.

Economics has revealed a great truth about the natural law of human interaction: that not only is production essential to man's prosperity and survival, but so also is exchange.

The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn't affect me because I know the truth.

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

'Emily Rose' was based on a real story, and the real girl died, and there were surviving members of the family, so I took the concerns of that very seriously.

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed; they panic, because they don't know which bits are true.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.