#truth

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#media #truth #life

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#arises #experience #irrelevant #larger #perhaps

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. ↗

— Jacques Prevert

#freedom #longer #police #real #today

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found. ↗

— Alan Price

#dig #else #everything #found #i

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history. ↗

— David Douglass

#consensus #had #history #indeed #scientific

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. ↗

— Dan Rather

#back #ball games #baseball #bit #chair

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers. ↗

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

#bad #cannot #circumstances #exists #fact

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#absolute truth #laugh #makes #people #thing

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#comfort #elect #fact #great #inwardly

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business