Stephen Colbert Quotes

Truth is whatever people will believe.

Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

I think the basic problem is that everybody thinks they know what the truth is, and sometimes they're even distorting the truth to make their arguments.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Of course there's objective truth, but when we're looking at people's accounts of it, it seems the real truth lies in the accretion of all these different versions.

Truth is created, not discover!

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Perception is reality.

The problem is that perception is reality.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

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

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

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

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.