Philosophy & Thought: Truth Quotes

"What are you hiding? No one ever asks that"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated"

Jena Malone, Actress

"OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?"

Teena Marie, Musician

"It does make a difference what you call things"

Kate D. Wiggins, Writer

"Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything"

Stephen Colbert, Comedian

"I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself"

Jude Law, Actor

"We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"Trust the tale, not the teller"

David Knopfler, Musician

"A lot of things just aren't true any more"

James L. Brooks, Producer

"Truth is a big concept"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him"

Jon Ronson, Journalist

"Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park"

Edmund S. Muskie, Politician

"Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril "

Alfred Loisy, Clergyman

"Truth is the daughter of time"

Aulus Gellius, Author

"Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case"

Simon Conway Morris, Scientist

"Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear"

Kate Winslet, Actress

"Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it"

Terry Jones, Comedian

"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth"

Sun Ra, Musician

"What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease"

Bliss Carman, Poet

"I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true"

Sam Sheppard, Scientist

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality"

Herman Wouk, Novelist

"There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies"

John Sterling, Author

"The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable"

Werner Herzog, Director

"It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in"

Tracey Ullman, Comedian

"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, Politician

"Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction"

Saul Steinberg, Artist

"I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then, but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country, of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'"

Peter Porter, Soldier

"When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible"

Jim Morris, Athlete

"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made"

Frank Knight, Economist

"The world loves to be deceived"

Sebastian Franck, Writer

"People don't really think other people are the same"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Official truths are often powerful illusions"

John Pilger, Journalist

"Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional"

Terry Eagleton, Critic

"It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing"

Jack Ruby, Criminal

"Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience"

Arthur Cayley, Mathematician

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