Quotes about Factuality

Maimonides

A truth does not become greater through repetition.

Spain was then controlled in different parts by Christians and Arab Muslims. In Arab oratory repetition then, and even today, is taken as emphasis and intensity o belief and truth. Christian oratory—especially religious rhetoric—also emphasized repetition.

Justin Raimondo

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

Yann Martel

I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

Andrea Arnold

I think the reality is important anyway.

Robert Fisk

I do not make stories up, full stop.

David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Pat Buchanan

My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.

Susan Sontag

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true.

Lorenzo Valla

History is more robust than poetry because it is more truthful.

Poets would argue that theirs is a different and perhaps more important kind of truth.

Anna Jameson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Patricia Briggs

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O man, of whatever country you are, and whatever your opinions may be, behold your history, such as I have thought to read it, not in books written by your fellow creatures, who are liars, but in nature, which never lies

Letitia Wright

My approach is the truth and aiming for the truth.

Marlene Dietrich

I am not a myth.

Jonathan Edwards

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Georges Braque

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

Steven Yeun

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.