Stephen Colbert Quotes

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Now, none of this is to say that the truth isn’t important. The truth obviously exists. It’s at the core—or the search for the truth—is at the core of some of our greatest human achievements. It can animate and inspire us to do, learn and create great things. But I think in our messy human hearts, we also know that the truth is something of a fickle mistress and that the beauty of the truth is often in the struggle. It’s the reason that we have so many sublime chronicles of the human experience, because we have so many different truths to be explored…. For many of us, truth is what we make when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world. Each of us has our own truth and it’s probably a good one.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

Perception is reality.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Whatever people think, is.

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth