Truth Vs Facts Quotes

The Republicans love the truth, but they hate facts.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the world of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the ambition of every journalist - was to be the greater truth teller.

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Facts can obscure the truth.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

Truth is independent of facts always.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.