Truth Quotes

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

There are many levels of truth.

The law is agnostic about truth.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

To tell you the truth, it's a complex piece, so I can't really answer your question at present.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.