Quotes About Truth

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

News organizations would best serve the public by sticking to the facts and the news. Speculation should be minimized.

The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

The biggest part of what Anita Hill did was take away the stigma of coming forward, and it took a lot for her to do that. We don't have these conversations, because of the fear that people won't believe you or you'll get attacked if you come forward. She came forward anyway and continued to tell her story.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

I have not committed any crimes. I have not stolen any money. I have not looted state resources.

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

I've realized I have not been completely honest with what I need and what I want and how I've been treated, and I haven't necessarily stood up for myself. I've not always stood completely in my power and spoken the truth.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I hope people stop judging others by blindly following rumors.

The Olympics are different, I'll admit that now and stop lying to myself.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

I think about this every day. I wonder, 'Is today the day where everybody stops lying to themselves and realises that the government is the enemy?'

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.