Quotes About Truth

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

If nothing else, the act of reaching a milestone often serves to reveal a superstar's true nature.

For many decades, Whitehall has deceived itself and deceived the public about the true nature of the E.U. project.

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!

You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?