Jean Shepherd Quotes

We are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

True information does good.

What I care about is maximum information.

Without facts you can't have truth.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Some things that are true are not very useful.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Say things to the world that are true.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

Is not the truth the truth?

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

I will omit but I will not distort.