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Truth Quotes
"In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth."
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"Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth."
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"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"
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"You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it."
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"I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them."
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
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"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
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"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."
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"The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns."
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"Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
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"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
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"The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it."
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"As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold."
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"...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your moans turn to screams... Prophecy will bite your prick off everytime."
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"I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago."
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"To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor."
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"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
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"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."
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"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."
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"All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true."
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"He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."
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"So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on."
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"Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
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"Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint."
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"I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy."
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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."
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"That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does."
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"Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood."
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"The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people."
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