Quotes About Truth

I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent narrative.

There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth.

Documentaries can provoke much more than narrative movies.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

Clearly, I'm not psychic.

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

In psychology, trying to force others to accept the reality of a fake world is called gaslighting. It got its name from the 1944 film 'Gaslight,' in which a husband convinces his wife and their neighbors that she is insane.

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

By bringing out into the public domain how human institutions actually behave, we can understand frankly, to a degree, for the first time the civilization that we actually have.

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.