Truth Quotes

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”

“Truth is not a matter of knowing, but a matter of living.”

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt to be dangerous.”

“You go where the evidence takes you.”

“Bad alibi like dead fish - cannot stand test of time.”

“I think that all writing is autobiographical.”

“Facts are not the whole truth.”

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”

“By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

“In medicolegal investigation, the truth is on the body.”

“Scientific forecasting... is the only legitimate and logical method of getting at the truth.”

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims of charismatic leaders and democratic majorities.”

“Every story is true. But some of them never happened.”

“I think the media has a responsibility to be fair, but that doesn't mean being neutral on facts.”

“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”

“In wine, there is truth.”

“I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

“You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.”

“The basic lie of all war is that it has to be.”

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation.”