Quotes About Truth

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.

I love being on Aussie breakfast TV. They like people who speak their mind and tell it like it is.

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

If the end brings me out right, what people said about me won't make any difference, and if the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels saying I was right won't make any difference.

The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

There's no such thing as a broken heart, and there's no such thing as a Sasquatch.

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

I don't really need to bury the NBA. I just want the truth to be known about what I did and how I did it.

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

To me, success is seeing that justice is done.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.