The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.