Truthiness Colbert Quotes

#1. It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. Bernard was stunned. He knew the Germans had hauled away millions of bottles of wine from his country; he had even seen some of it stolen from the village where he once worked, but a wine cellar on top of a mountain seemed incredible. To be the one who would open it was almost overwhelming.

Don Kladstrup

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.

Adrian Tomine

#6. I read for fun and to escape the mundaneness that is reality, to get lost in make-believe worlds where good always triumphs over evil.

Erica Cope

#7. Remember that a wish held fervently turns into belief, and a belief held diligently becomes reality.

Jim Stovall

#8. The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you.

Stephen Colbert

#9. The most educated person in the world now has to admit
I shall not say confess
that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

Stephen Colbert

#11. Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations.

Dallas Willard

#12. You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut.

Stephen Colbert

#13. I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.

Chris Hardwick

#14. Even Mongo liked him, although Mongo likes everybody. (Also Mongo was so thrilled with himsel for staying in the dog bed till I'd released him that nothing was going to blow his mood.)

Robin McKinley

#15. [Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Patrick Leahy