Quotes About Truth

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Bones smiled. "Oh, grand. Going to make me beat the truth out of you? My favorite way to work.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

I do think the strategy of Trump, and now the Republican Party, is to eviscerate the idea of objective truth.

I'm not going to back down from my controversial positions. If I were to do that, my base would be gone. And so my strategy is just, continue to speak the truth, even if it is controversial.

My strategy is being as honest as possible.

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

The most fundamental strength of India is that we are a land of seekers. Seekers of truth and liberation. Not a land of believers. We are a godless nation.

One should have strength and courage to follow their own truth, speak their own language, fulfill their own dreams.

I try not to take any liberties when it comes to being factual. Sometimes you have to, just to make the song sound good. But I feel like, personally, if you've lived it, then you shouldn't stretch the truth. It should be that experience.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.