The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value, and we conflate it with truth, and instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity that's short term and leaves you even more vacant and empty before you did it.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
The truth is that those who join gangs - more often than not they are young men in their later teens - often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
The truth is that the right decision often can't be led with either head or heart exclusively.
I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
The object of the superior man is truth.
The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.