Truth Quotes

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

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

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Truth is what works.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.