What Is Truth Quotes

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.

You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.

When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

Another foundational truth is that God has a plan for history. History is providential, not accidental.

It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

Truth does not demand belief.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

The truth is in the present moment.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.