Quotes About Truth

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Live your own life; practice what you preach.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

The more powerful you become, the less likely it is that people will tell you the truth. It must be why the 'Harry Potter' books become so bloated as the series progresses; think of the beautiful, precise editing of books 1-3 drowned in a mire of sycophancy and yea-saying.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

I write a lot about race precisely because I don't believe it's real.

I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.