Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]
There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.
The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Existing outside of irony is so hard.
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."
Naked Truth needs no shift.
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
What could there be more purely bright in truth's day star?
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
You’re going to get what I think is the truth, and it’s going to be raw.
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
