Werner Herzog Quotes

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

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

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

The truth is more important than the facts

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.

There are many levels of truth.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Facts do not speak.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

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

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?