Trevor Noah Quotes

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.

I certainly don't believe you documentary filmmakers. Like me, you are involved in making fiction, and your fiction is just as well organized and just as well predicated, but the big difference between me and you is that I'm honest and you're dishonest. I know I'm telling you lies.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

I think he [Tony LaRussa] legitimately believes what he says. I don't agree with him. But I think he's being as honest as he can be.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

Say it, do it, preach it, shout it, but never, absolutely never, believe your own bullshit.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.