Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Live truth instead of professing it.

But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Time discovers truth.

The truth is lived, not taught.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Seeing is not always believing.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I love stories about women.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.