Quotes About Truth

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

Nothing will replace good journalism.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

If you're going to lie, at least be good at it.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.