Marissa Moss Quotes

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

History is more interesting than most people think.

I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Truth cannot be defeated.

From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn from the realities it covers.

Without facts you can't have truth.

Facts matter a great deal to me.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

There's just no substitute for the truth.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

The truth will always have a market.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.