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Quotes About Truth

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
~ Robert Bresson
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
~ Robert Bresson
The truth of cinematography cannot be the truth of theatre, not the truth of the novel, nor the truth of painting. (What the cinematographer captures with his or her own resources cannot be what the theatre, the novel, painting capture with theirs).
~ Robert Bresson
BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).
~ Robert Bresson
In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.
~ Robert Bresson
The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.
~ Robert Bresson
It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.
~ Robert Bresson
One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.
~ Robert Bresson
The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
~ Robert Bresson
Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.
~ Robert Bresson
Pure Reason left to herself relieth on axioms and essential premises which she can neither question nor resolve.
~ Robert Bridges
if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem.
~ Robert Bringhurst
Be there, for once and all, Severed great minds from small, Announced to each his station in the Past! Was I, the world arraigned, Were they, my soul disdained, Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last! Now, who shall arbitrate? Ten men love what I hate, Shun what I follow, slight what I receive; Ten, who in ears and eyes Match me: we all surmise, They this thing, I that: whom shall my soul believe?
~ Robert Browning
The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
~ Robert Browning
Truth never hurts the teller.
~ Robert Browning
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truths, to mouths like mine at least.
~ Robert Browning
There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music.
~ Robert Browning
Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.
~ Robert Browning
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
~ Robert Browning
God is the perfect poet.
~ Robert Browning
One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
~ Robert Buettner
Discernment is having the eyes to see, and the ears to hear - and the ability to feel the emotional energy that is Truth.
~ Robert Burney
I learned that my emotional truth was being dictated by my subconscious perspectives of life, by the definitions of life that had been imposed on me as a child, by the subconscious attitudes that I had adopted because of the emotional traumas I had experienced as a child.
~ Robert Burney
The dance of Recovery is a process of learning to accept and integrate the Truth of Grace into our lives.
~ Robert Burney