The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth. Ed Asner charactercomedyessential Change image and share on social
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton eyefindlight Change image and share on social
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy. Errol Morris findmercyobsession Change image and share on social
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. Edmond Halley determinedifficultdistance Change image and share on social
The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it. Eugene Mirman comediandarklydeeply share on social
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics. Edmund White amusedarefeminism Change image and share on social
I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience. Edmund White experiencefaithfulhave Change image and share on social
My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top. Evan Williams beliefbloggingbubble share on social
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth. Eric Carr liepeoplereason Change image and share on social
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. Eliezer Yudkowsky argumentbeginbribery share on social