Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Seek truth from facts.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

A journalists's job is not to be balanced. It is to be accurate.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

I seek the truth.

Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.