truth

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"Betrayal is a cliché … Lies are so suburban. But murder is nice and clean."

"The feigning sleeper can delude others — he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself."

"Basically, I write from a two person standpoint. First, I let the song take hold and I put down the idea as a raw emotional statement. Then I let it breathe and come back, approaching from more of an …"

"I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have pl…"

"I collaborated on a brain imaging study in 2010, and the overwhelming conclusion we reached is that the neural patterns were very similar for true and false memories. We are a long way away from being…"

"Every truthful work of art must express a definite feeling, must move the spirit of the spectator either to joy or to sadness.. ..rather than try to unite all sensations, as thought mixed together wit…"

"lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams." ~ Robert Bloch"

"Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story."

"The future is of our own making — and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to that truth."

"To really grasp the depths of diabolical evil, you have to be prepared to engage in some honest self-reflection. You have to be able to humble yourself and search the inmost core of your being in orde…"

"When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds."

"The truth is, distributing intimate photos with the intent to publish them is a crime, and the perpetrator should be punished to the full extent of the law. I have notified Capitol Police, who are inv…"

"“Truth may have been found but might never be known."

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating use…"

"I often tell people to make no mistake about it—enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being more or less happy. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of un…"

"Oh, I think that's exactly their calculus. But then we ought to just be honest and say, "Look, we're a bunch of Nazis." So fine, let's just drop all the discussion, we save a lot of trees, we can thro…"

"Our government has known for years that the war in Afghanistan is a jaw-dropping disaster... How do we know they knew? The Washington Post actually just published some impressive reporting, taking a s…"

"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement."