Quotes About Truth

Hannity does not recognize real journalism. He opposes real journalism.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened.

People need to trust what gardai say on the stand, and I can understand that perhaps in a scenario whereby lots of things are happening quickly and people are caught up in the heat of the moment, they may have a recollection that isn't exactly as things happened.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we've found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you've decided to believe in for yourself.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

What we badly need in this country is a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, like what we've seen in other nations that have tried to turn the page on injustice.

I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel.

Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.