Quotes About Truth

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The truth of the matter is, as an organizer, you're essentially being asked to do the impossible.

Throughout history libraries have testified to what a civilization meant, or wanted to believe it meant.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

But realism in art can only be achieved in one way—through artifice.

The photographic image is the object itself, the object freed from the conditions of time and space that govern it. No matter how fuzzy, distorted, or discolored, no matter how lacking in documentary value the image may be, it shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

FOREWORD by François Truffaut

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not.

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.

The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.

Of verse eternal I've the art. And men Are gladdened by my voice, which speaks but truth. The supreme reason that I proudly bear Could not be bought for all a world of gold. All have I touched: women, apples, fire; All have I felt: winter, spring, and summer; All have I found, for no wall can halt me. But tell me, Fortune, what then is thy name? Charles Cros, 1842–1888

Les hommes désespèrent stupidement de l'amour - j'en ai désespéré - ils vivent asservis à cette idée que l'amour est toujours derrière eux, jamais devant eux : les siècles passés, le mensonge de l'oubli à vingt ans. Ils supportent, ils s'aguerrissent à admettre surtout que l'amour ne soit pas pour eux, avec son cortège de clartés, ce regard sur le monde qui est fait de tous les yeux de devins.

O mundo é o verdadeiro espelho em que o homem se busca. A arte não passa de um reflexo em que ele se encontra.

L'essentiel, c'est de ne pas mentir, et d'abord de ne pas se mentir. Ne pas se mentir sur la vie, sur nous-mêmes, sur le bonheur.

Milagre da literatura, quando é verdadeira.

Silence leads to acceptance, which leads to liberation. All of our conditioning is then suspended; so, too, are morals, manners, even simple courtesy. Dogmas, rules, commandments, churches, political parties, opinions, doctrines, ideologies, and gurus fall away. All that remains is reality. All that remains is truth. How free we suddenly feel!