Quotes About Truth

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.

In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader was starving. He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that?

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

It is being stated that Modi was a minor at the time of his marriage, which is a big lie. There is evidence to prove that when he got married, he was not a minor but had grown up.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

With no more than six levels of misquotation, any statement can be made to say whatever you wish.

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Together with Milan and our media team, we released a statement clearly stating it was a hoax and there was no truth in the rumour that I had Ebola. And that's when the whole thing started to die down. Still, it took about two days or so for people to actually stop talking about it.