Jeremy Podeswa Quotes

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

We're awash in toxic memes right now. One of the most toxic, I think because it enables so many others, is the idea that truth doesn't matter, that truth is just relative, that there's no such thing as establishing the truth of anything. Your truth, my truth, we're all entitled to our own truths. That's pernicious, it's attractive to many people, and it is used to exploit people in all sorts of nefarious ways. The truth really does matter.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

Where are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.