Quotes & Sayings About Truth From Famous Philosophers

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche. — Michael Eric Dyson

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers
all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences
it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private. — Peter Greenaway

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox

What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know ... morons — Gene Wilder

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories. — Robert Barron

I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale. — Brooke Burke

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum. — Denis Waitley

No matter how much people recognize you, or how popular you are with them, you will be unhappy unless you acknowledge yourself. True recognition does not only come from those around you or the world. It comes when you recognize and love yourself — Ilchi Lee

I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. — Kerry Washington

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it. — Snoop Dogg

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. — Laozi

Doesn't matter who it is
I'll friggin break 'em
-Grimmjow jaggerjaques — Tite Kubo

I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water. — David Letterman

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you. — Harold Feinstein