Quotes About Truth

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Reality TV is not real.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

Nothing I say is harsh. What I do say is the truth. If people have a problem with that, they need to realize that's on them. That's not on me.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.

We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.

That's one thing I can't lose: I can't lose the realness in my music.

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

What I liked about grunge was the realness. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't glamorous.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

You cannot reason with delusion.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.