Truthiness Quotes & Sayings

Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us. — William Shakespeare

When the power goes out, we jump up to ... To what? It's weird. We're so used to electricity, when it's gone, we don't know what to do. So we jump up or squeal or start jabbering like idiots. We panic. It's like someone cut off our oxygen. — Rick Yancey

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, "in the same respect," says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you've changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact. — Alan Alda

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' — John Hodgman

A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs. — Richard Castle

The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you. — Stephen Colbert

And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word!' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I am no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, what did or didn't happen. — Stephen Colbert

You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut. — Stephen Colbert

There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for. — Haruki Murakami

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact. — Gore Vidal

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father. — Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. — Stephen Colbert

Don't kick the horse's mouth that feeds you. — Ryan Fowler

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support. — Stephen Colbert

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness. — Jonathan Haidt