Quotes About Truth

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

There is no better guide to this world than oblivion.

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

How much weight can carry a thought which does not acknowledge that it is an illusion?

Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

Life is not that complicated.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I'm still holding up a mirror.

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet