Quotes About Truth

In our system, criminal justice isn't the quest for revenge. It's the quest for truth, evidence and facts, and the use of that truth as we fairly apply our laws.

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.

The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them.

There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let's analyze it a little - a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation.

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.

Now everybody is questioning everything, so it's up to journalists who really care about the truth to fight for their corner of the truth and journalistic freedom.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I answer questions the best I can.

Kids always ask the most obvious and the most difficult questions.

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

I can tell very quickly when people are lying.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.