I feel like it’s my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
The law is agnostic about truth. It’s very skeptical of ultimate truth. That’s why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
There’s truth and then there’s fiction – I think truth does exist and you can present it.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
We are living in a global world – but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
The fundamental human truth underpinning ‘Ox Mountain Death Song’ is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that’s not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there’s a truth in your heart that says you’ll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you’ll catch me whenever I fall.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.
People are starving for truth and leadership.
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
