The older I get, the more I realize the truth is the simpler the food, the more exceptional it can be.
Picasso said, ‘Art is a lie that tells the truth.’ What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I trust you: That’s huge. That’s truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.
Washington couldn’t tell a lie, Nixon couldn’t tell the truth, and Reagan couldn’t tell the difference.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.’
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It’s the healthiest way to be.
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship – the idea that black people are from outer space, there’s a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
What is man’s ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn’t mean that it’s a fact or the truth – painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
‘Eureka’ moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.
