The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.
A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.
There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The truth is more important than the facts.
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
The word 'embarrassing' is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
I just think that I'm a person who's trying to find the truth and express it as I, you know, get the opportunity.
To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.
Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.
