The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.