Quotes About Truth

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

I have never played a game in my life.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.