Quotes About Truth

Everything that people say is testable.

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Perception is not always reality.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

The problem is that perception is reality.

I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.

Modern morality is all about perception.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

This perception that I'm negative toward Peyton and I don't appreciate the things he did is so far from the truth.

The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.

Perception's not reality.

Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

If we can bring our perception of our ability in line with our actual ability then we have the capacity to be authentic. Then we can accept we are as good as we really are.