Quotes About Reality

Exactitude is not truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they'll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

You can't argue with the truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

The truth is, your identity already has been stolen.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.