Element Of Truth Quotes

#1. I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

Chet Faker

#2. I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005.

Rick Wakeman

#3. His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth.

Haruki Murakami

#4. The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Theodor W. Adorno

#5. Humor may be the best way to transmit truth since all good humor must be based on an element of truth.

Mike Brister

#6. Only, I felt, by some such attempt to write history in terms of personal life could I rescue something that might be of value, some element of truth and hope and usefulness, from the smashing up of my own youth by the war.

Vera Brittain

#7. The best lies carry an element of truth.

Frances Fowlkes

#8. There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Irving Berlin

#9. Just remember all the good lies have an element of truth to them.

John J. Davis

#10. I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

#11. All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Henry Petroski

#12. I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

Alison Goldfrapp

#13. Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Eric Idle

#14. A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Jack Kirby

#15. Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

Zahi Hawass

#16. In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace.

Rae Carson

#17. These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

James K. Glassman

#18. The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction.

Renee Conoulty

#19. Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Jane Goodall

#20. It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

David Baldacci

#21. Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

Shaun Tan

#23. There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro.

Nick Hornby

#24. Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. Every author bleeds
a different color of ink,
some light, some dark,
but always
with an element
of truth...

Suzanne Steele

#26. This
is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not
in the least an essential element of verity.

George MacDonald

#27. The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#28. Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Madame De Stael

#30. The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...

Federico Garcia Lorca

#31. The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Daniel Webster

#32. The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#33. I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Todd Solondz

#34. We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

#35. Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

William Mountford

#36. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Lucian Freud