Quotes About Truth

I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, and I think audiences do, too. One of the reasons why 'Bloody Sunday' and 'United 93' work is because they felt real, felt truthful.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.

Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me?

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

People believe what they want to believe.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

No one who really wants to count for God can afford to play at Christianity.

The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?

The world wants to be deceived.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.