Quotes About Truth

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

The Savior's way of life is good.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way as gives us breath: Such a Truth as ends all strife: Such a Life as killeth death.

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life