Quotes About Truth

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

WikiLeaks, for me, has not only that element in it of journalism publishing, but also the way in which it does it, with its - the concept we have of scientific journalism, I find very important and really appeals to me, that all of the source documents should be there.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

I have to say that talk of me living as a tramp at one point is completely false and I think that's been added to my entry in Wikipedia, but I have been asked about that quite a few times.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else's. I haven't bothered about that.

Prosecutors are all used to people who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Prosecutors are all used to persons who commit fraud making wild accusations when they're caught.

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.