Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
Truth is a tendency.
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
News isn't even the truth on television.
The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.
There is no truth. There is only perception.
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.
Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
We buy into the computer, and everything that comes from the computer, we believe to be the truth.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
