Quotes About Truth

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.

The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.

Proper names are rigid designators.

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could not put it down. When I finished it, I had to find out the true facts behind the story and if people really carried on like that in those days. So I began to read proper history books, and found that they did!

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would be able to see that. People can see right through that.

I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

I am not a prophet.

Far from environmental prophet, he is a foreign oil profiteer. That is the inconvenient truth of Al Gore.

Mr. Trump is a false prophet.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.