Quotes About Truth

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you," he said. "The most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

Reviews and the show's own publicity always stressed its "realism." There is no doubt it

Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all

Much of what is most simple is most miraculous.

What gets us into trouble is not what don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

Choose one area in which you have been out of integrity. Identify your fear that keeps you from telling the truth or doing the right thing. Reveal this situation to a safe person. Then go and tell the truth or do what you have to do to make the situation right. Tell yourself you can handle it. Since telling the truth may create a crisis for you or others, have faith that everyone involved will survive this crisis.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake-oil "miracles." I prefer the Real McCoy - a pregnant woman.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Being honest does not detract from the loss or the incredible value these people have: it simply prevents the pain, mistrust, and anger that follows when the truth comes out.

We must always couch our current scientific knowledge as "currently unfalsified.

It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

But after life has begun to run away from us, nothing is ever again really credible, nor does it matter.

I began to perceive how relative and instrumental truth could be.

Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Elmo found, as have many, that the death of the heart corrupted the pen into writing a farrago of horrors and insanities, not necessarily the less true for their seeming extravagance, but inaccessible for the most part to the prudent.

Sloppy language is a kind of disloyalty to humanity, a kind of lying. Talent

Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.