Best 716 quotes in «truth is quotes» category

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

I cannot agree with those who say that they have 'new truth' to teach. The two words seem to me to contradict each other; that which is new is not true. It is the old that is true, for truth is as old as God himself.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a certain "grittieness" and is filled with imperfections, and yet their is an undeniable truth, that what you see really exits, even it if is posed by hand, 24 times a second. This truth is what I find most attractive about stop-motion animation.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

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

I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is far too large and complex. Nobody has the truth.

I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth is that we are all changing all the time to each other. Anybody who's been in a relationship for more than a year, more than five years, knows this.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because I've never had to be somebody to do something. I don't have a five year-plan. I just hope the phone will ring and it will bring an opportunity to dominate my life.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.