I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.
Hunter S. ThompsonNothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles DickensTruth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David ThoreauTruth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac NewtonFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George OrwellI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MenckenI love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
Angelina JolieNothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Blaise PascalEven in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. LewisWere it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas JeffersonFor me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganTo buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur SchopenhauerOne must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Franz KafkaA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles SpurgeonWe’re news junkies in my house.
Stephen KingI can be a cruel person.
Amy WinehouseIf it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus AureliusIt isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
Will RogersThe book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper LeeThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas SowellDoubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea BallouI don’t read books much.
LeBron JamesIt is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfTrue friends stab you in the front.
Oscar WildeI’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.
John KennedyThe goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. KennedyI read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.
David ByrneOur character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.
Abraham LincolnIf we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
James MadisonBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel JohnsonIt is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
Hermann HesseBut the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan WattsI am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.
VoltaireI am not a fan of books.
Kanye WestIf people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas SowellSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis BaconThe pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.
Mahatma GandhiI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonThose thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
William JamesI don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
Frank OceanAs long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.
Alice WalkerTime is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin DisraeliIf anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.
Isaac NewtonReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph AddisonTruly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise PascalThe true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
AristotleReading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
Margaret AtwoodI know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.
Brian EnoUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper LeeFiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen KingIt’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, ‚Read,‘ but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, ‚Don’t read, don’t think, just write,‘ and the result could be a mountain of drivel.
Alice MunroPolitical language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconThe earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
ChanakyaIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeAmerica is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham Bell