Todd Barry Quotes

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

True information does good.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.