Quotes About Truth

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

I would never lie about another professional.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.

I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.

I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the middle, because all of them are lying. It's what they're not saying that's really going on. What they're saying is called television programming. They're telling you this is the program. You are being programmed.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

Progressives are not going to give up on facts.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect.