Quotes About Truth

I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step into a cinema and see your life depicted in another way can come as a terrible shock.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.