William Cullen Bryant Quotes

Truth is a big concept.

Exactitude is not truth.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

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

I am not a myth.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

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

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Facts are better than dreams.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.