Quotes About Truth

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

I'm not going to tone down my rhetoric, and I'm not going to censor myself in sharing what I believe to be the truth. People could either love that or hate that, but I'm not really interested in playing games in order to appeal to a broader audience.

If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

I will speak with a straight tongue.

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.

I've played American characters before, so I've naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.

You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of 'safe space' from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn't true - and we shouldn't allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.

Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

Sometimes you can have too much information. You keep gathering information and never bother to find out what the real answer is.

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.