Quotes About Truth

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.

I don't attend costume parties.

We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

Our corrupt, partisan media are embarrassing.

Science, logic, and truth should not be partisan issues; they are the cornerstones of fields that have made the United States a leader in innovation and a better place for everyone to live.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.

Is truth about domestic violence and those who enable it more important than a company's corporate partnerships? I think so.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

I always told Travis the truth but he had this entourage, people who had everything to gain from partying with him and doing drugs. They didn't want the wife around.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.