Quotes About Truth

Most historians are engaged in fiction.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

Sometimes no matter how strong your imagination is and how many days you spend picturing a life with a woman, she turns out to be so amazing that only being there with her in the moment, holding her in your arms, can you find the truth in your heart.

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

I had a little glimpse of what fame holds, and I decided it held a load of nothing.

The truth about the Holocaust must not die.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

Good design should be honest.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.

At least I can say that I'm honest.