Quotes About Truth

I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it's a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.

To my mind, a journalist needs to espouse objectivity and distance, while a writer practises an art that is more free.

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.

Politics can cloud objectivity.

As a journalist, you want to try to maintain that objectivity and detachment.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong.

As a journalist - or as a writer - my obligation is to come as close to the truth as I possibly can. And that's not as close to someone else's truth, but the truth as I see it.

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

Even good people are obliged to deceive.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.