Quotes About Truth

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it.

It's a fact that Guardiola is joining Manchester City, and we have to respect that. But there is no truth in the rumours saying I will follow him.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!

We are almost in a time beyond jokes, beyond satire. When the Trump era is called the 'post-truth' period, then this is the greatest joke of all, albeit quite depressing.

It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot.

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.

At this point, there is enough research for me to believe that both are true. So, if I had to do it over again, I'd simply call it "Reprocessing Therapy." But now Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—more commonly called EMDR—is known worldwide, so it's too late for a name change.

All is lost save honor.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Science is but an image of the truth.