Francis Schaeffer Quotes

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.