Quotes About Truth

If you're going to talk about the devil, at some point you've got to meet the devil.

Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to have faith, but must be in search of God all the time, and in the dialogue with others, a Catholic can learn more about God in a deeper fashion.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

My son died for lies.

There's a difference between a rumor and a lie.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

You're really looking for the truth of what the piece is about. And that's going to be different for different people.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their emails, is just false.

Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

Writing 'Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle' must have been a difficult task because there are no facts. Judas may quite possibly never have existed at all, and if he did, the Judas kiss may not have happened.

When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

To me, great advertising can make food taste better, can make your car run smoother. It can change your perception of something. Is it wrong to change your perception about something? Of course not. I'm not lying; I'm just saying, 'This one's more fun, this one's more exciting.'

Reality is an acquired taste.

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.