Quotes About Truth

Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of folks now in the briefing room, that are going into journalism - they're not there for the facts and the pursuit of the truth.

A chap can go too far in the pursuit of authenticity.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

I used to think there was something cheap in trying to make beautiful sentences. Now I think language has its own ways and ends, and it does one's thinking good to try to serve them. Beauty isn't truth. But a certain kind of clear beauty will help in the pursuit of truth.

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.

Integrity is integrity. I don't push it to the side because I'm talking to Julia Roberts.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

ESPN puts out anything for clicks now, it kind of seems like.

I always believe in truth. Sometimes I know truth others don't. That puts me in a little bit of jeopardy sometimes.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.