Truth Quotes

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Sincerity is moral truth.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.