Peter Ustinov Quotes

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.

XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Truth is always a delusion.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

The truth is more important than the facts

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

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

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.