Quotes About Truth

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive.

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

I wanted to go to a place with my first album that was just to the root, to the heart of emotion, and just unbridled by anything that wasn't truly in my heart.

I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that we can't avoid entitlement reform because we are afraid of third rail politics.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.