Quotes About Truth

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth, justice, and a better American Way.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

We need to read history from the source.

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

I don't like when people come out and say 'sources say' and this and that. Listen, if you can't put your name behind it, then don't say it. I don't believe in that.