Werner Herzog Quotes

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Science is not wisdom.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.