Quotes About Truth

The perceptions and pronouncements of human beings are inherently subjective. Every news article is the product of all sorts of highly subjective cultural, nationalistic, and political assumptions. And all journalism serves one faction's interest or another's. The

The very idea that reporters should be free of opinions is far from some time-honored requirement of the profession; in fact, it is a relatively new concoction that has the effect, if not the intent, to neuter journalism. This

Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.

Equally nonsensical was the notion that Snowden would try to save himself by giving away surveillance secrets. He had dismantled his life and risked a future in prison to tell the world about a clandestine surveillance system he believed must be stopped.

Even the written evidence offered by the executioners tells us that. And it ended with Anastasia not being buried with the rest of her family." Yakov paused. "The DNA experts can speculate all they want, but they still can't say with absolute certainty that any of the bones later found belonged to her. I doubt they ever will." I felt dazed. "How can I know that your version of events is true?

liars need to have good memories

The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.

it was a case of making an impressionable, mentally ill woman believe that she was Anastasia Romanov. Their deception began with Anna Anderson's supposed suicide attempt in a Berlin canal, and her amazing story was born." "Anna Anderson was a decoy?" "Pure and simple. To deflect the world from the truth.

Truth and love do not need walls. Christ did not build walls. He tore them down. And he prayed, not in lofty, beautiful churches but in people's homes

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.

We all know that God doesn't change (James 1:17). He has not changed since the beginning of time (Malachi 3:6). For healing to pass away, then God would have to pass away. He is still the Lord that healeth us!

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

There are no absolute truths, and the best historians know that. You strive to capture a moment of time, and if your work is done properly, history becomes a written photograph.

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

There is no virtue in being on the same page if it's the wrong page.

It doesn't matter if you love the people society says you shouldn't love or do or don't have children with more than one of them; it doesn't matter if you have money, go to church, or obey the law; what matters is that you're not cruel or wasteful, that you don't keep the truth from those who need it, suppress someone's will or talent, take more than you need from nature, or fail to use your own talent and will.

The media are not reality; reality is reality.

Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

The truth was that I had internalized society's unserious estimate of all that was female - including myself.

the clearest view is always from the bottom. Kennedy

Clearly, Columbus never "discovered" America, in either sense of that word. The people who knew it were already here.

In pre-Watergate, pre-sexual revolution times, such stories just weren't written.