The Will To Truth Quotes

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Truth is such a subjective thing.

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

Not even the most devastating truth can be told; it must be evoked.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

He maybe, possibly, said that if he got word of anyone getting in your way, they’d find out whether there was any truth to the rumor about him knowing how to kill a man with paper clips.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every now and then.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.