There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
Fact and fiction are different truths.
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. What wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! And if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.
There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
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.
I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits
. . . when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths. . . The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that. . . But the second kind, they show you life more like it is. . . The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.
Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.