Quotes About Truth

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

What we call 'the news' always has tried to tell a story, and it's always told the story it wanted or, put most positively, whatever story it believed needed telling.

Never, ever cheat, especially yourself, even if you are absolutely, positively sure that you can get away with it.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

How is an error possible in mathematics?

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

I want to be as honest as I possibly can. I sleep better at night.

If you see anything, you see I post a lot of Scriptures.

In 14 months, my government, the Philippine 2 government, has filed 11 cases. I posted bail eight times, I've been arrested twice in five weeks, detained once, and the only thing I've done, my only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power.

I know some of my memories are made up and they are far more powerful than the things that actually happened. For example, I always remember my brother posting me a copy of 'Dubliners' from Africa, but he says he never did.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.