Quotes About Truth

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.