Quotes About Truth

We are unreliable narrators - all of us.

There is so much unreliable information on the internet and in the media.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

The truth of the matter is, 'uncomfortable' does not equal 'unsafe,' and 'disagreement' does not equal 'danger.'

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

To realize that I had been living a lie, to realize that I was unsatisfied and I would never be satisfied until I came to Jesus was so revolutionary to me that I wanted everyone to taste it. I wanted everyone to see how awesome God was.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

The truth is nobody was a Muslim until Public Enemy came out. Then, everybody was Muslim this and Muslim that. It's a bandwagon thing. Islam is a way of life... it's a religion. It's not just something you put on a record.