Quotes About Truth

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Politicians often lie.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

I think all politicians lie.

Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

There are many things that I've learned through the characters that I've played. But one thing that pops up in my head is 'always be honest.'

What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.