The Truth Quotes
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.
Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
I cared about us. But the cold hard truth was, nothing I said or did could realign the stars.
I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.
I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.
... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'
In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.
I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
Shahidullah Shahid said there is nothing Islamic in Pakistan’s constitution. He clearly can’t read. The truth is there is nothing Islamic in the TTP.
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.
I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
All I did was tell the truth. That's is what the whole show is about! And if Politically Incorrect has to go down for it, so be it!