Truths Quotes

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you`re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

- Gary Oldman

I think we all exude essential truths about ourselves, and then, as an actress, there`s what you do with it. There`s your wit and your imagination, and what you can cook up from your experience and understanding of what makes a human being tick.

- Uma Thurman

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

- David Blaine

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

- Jena Malone

I`ve always operated under the notion that audiences don`t always know when they`re being lied to, but that they always know when they`re being told the truth. If there are what I think are unsung truths to be talked about in a film, through a character, through a story, and that dominates the piece, that`s the key for me. I think the biggest thing is to not participate in the damaging, lying cinema.

- Sean Penn

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn`t - you just have got to let it go.

- Charlotte Church

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

- Kary Mullis

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

- Samuel P. Huntington

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

- Samuel P. Huntington

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

- Tom Hayden

It`s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren`t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who`ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

- Cameron Crowe

The telling of these truths is an important part of our work in building a strong and broad peace movement in the United States.

- Paul Robeson

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

- Rod Parsley

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

- Charles Keating

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

- Mercedes McCambridge

I felt someone was revealing hard truths about themselves, revealing uneasy things about themselves, which I always find really generous, ... It makes my life easier when people say, `Hey! I`m not perfect,` or, `Hey! I`ve got flaws.` And he did it with such a sense of humor and such compassion for all those flaws, he was making us all a cushion to trip over and fall on, you know?

- Mike Mills

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

- Robert Frost

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can`t celebrate humanity but I`m not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

- Todd Solondz

The human heart doesn't change that much, ... I think they're a few writers where you don't understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths we'll always be attached to.

- Joe Wright

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I`m concerned.

- Matt Drudge

It is a fool`s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

- Neil Gaiman

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

- Tom Stoppard

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

- Elizabeth Goudge

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

- James Newman

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

- Anita Brookner

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

- Janet Frame

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

- John Pilger

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.

- Alexander Pushkin

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it`s going to get by.

- Jeffrey Sachs

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

- A.J. Ellison

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - `We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.`

- Adam Quinton

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

- Adam Trachtenberg

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- Adeline Casares

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

- Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

- Alan Lubinsky

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

- Alan Starling

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

- Alejandro Canizares

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

- Alex Fiato

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

- Alex Fiato

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

- Alex Fisher

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

- Alex Gruzen

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

- Alex Okosi

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.

- Alex Thiermann

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

- Alex Thiermann

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

- Alfie Cox

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.

- Alfred Korzybski

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

- Allen Sale