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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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 cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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.

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

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

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

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

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

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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

This was life in the ’30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.