William James Quotes

Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.

Truth is a big concept.

Truth implies meaning.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

They're only words, unless they're true.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.

We ultimately have to find truth in the material, and I think that transfers onto the screen. Obviously there's varying degrees of it, and we don't get it right all the time [laughs], but I think when it feels grounded, it's because we recognize the truth in the material.

Better to have bad news that's true than good news we made up

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Truth will prevail.

Truth is a great flirt.

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

I deal in facts.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.