Quotes About Truth

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.