Quotes About Author

History records no more gallant struggle than that of humanity against the truth.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth emerges.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.