Quotes About Truth

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

The story of undocumented immigrants in this country is not just about undocumented immigrants. It's about the country as a whole, and it's about us being able to tell the truth about where we are with this issue because we haven't been telling the truth about where we are with this issue.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for 'the truth.' But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.

Just like there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical attorneys, there is nothing wrong with calling out unethical journalists.

You can't disbar unethical journalists.

The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

The challenge in any kind of storytelling, as far as I know, it is, you're looking for the moment that is completely unexpected, but at the same time, you think to yourself, 'Of course, that's the only way it could have gone.' It has to feel like it's the truth of it.

I never look at twists as a way to trick the audience. Obviously, I think a good story has surprises and unexpected turns, and you always want to do that with an audience. But it has nothing to do with conning them or making them believe so strongly in one thing and then kind of going the other way.

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

My grandfather was a civil servant. He was honest, so it would be unfair to say we enjoyed the perils of richness.

I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'

I believe I had an unfair reputation. If people think I was a bad kid, I was a bad kid to them. But people close to me know I'm not.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.