Stephen Colbert Quotes

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

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

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

After a point it does not matter whether ... perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions that matter.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

There are many levels of truth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.