The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
Some scenes you juggle two balls some scenes you juggle three balls some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
The words of truth are simple.
All truth in the long run is only common sense clarified.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty the truth has to do with mercy.
When I can look life in the eyes grown calm and very coldly wise life will have given me the truth and taken in exchange - my youth.
The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Truth after all wears a different face to everybody and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news and to conceal the truth.
And after all what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known but tries to hide them is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy easier in fact than to be a master in the truth because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it but truth is a point of view and so is changeable.
An honest man speaks the truth though it may give offence a vain man in order that it may.
Don't let your special character and values the secret that you know and no one else does the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools not to establish the truth but to seek it.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!