Seymour Hersh Quotes

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

And if that isn't the truth, it would be a lie.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

I don't lie very well!

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

You never monkey with the truth.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I am not honest.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

Everything I say is true.

I'm not a liar.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.