Quotes About Truth

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Reasons are whores.

Every man is a hypocrite

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

When you criticize grown men, it's a lot easier. They make millions of dollars. They should be able to handle it, especially if you do it in a truthful manner... I'm sure it stings, but my whole objective is to be honest.

I don't ever want to work on something unless I feel really passionate about it and know I can give everything to it; otherwise it's not truthful and I hate that.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today. It's impossible.

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That's always been my philosophy.

Your average director will be content with something that comes across as truthful, but we know, as fellow actors, that that's not great for a performer. They have to feel that what they're conveying is honest.

Since Jesus is the truth, if you follow him, you must be truthful, no matter what the personal cost.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.