Truthiness Quotes

#1. At this stage, don't take any of your statistics too literally and don't let any single number dominate your strategic thinking.

Anonymous

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

Jonathan Haidt

#3. 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

#4. On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

Gore Vidal

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#8. A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.

Richard Castle

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

Stephen Colbert

#10. Don't kick the horse's mouth that feeds you.

Ryan Fowler

#11. 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

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

Stephen Colbert

#13. I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

John Hodgman

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

Stephen Colbert

#15. One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.

Esther Hicks

#16. Nothing wrong with taking time to figure out your life and make sure you really like where your life is going. I mean, it's better to do it now than when it's too late.

Melody Carlson

#17. We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

William Shakespeare

#18. Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Stephen D. Krashen

#19. It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

Lou Holtz

#20. In our dreams, we find the dreams of others, and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.

Robin Sacredfire

#21. 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