Werner Herzog Quotes

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

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

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

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

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.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth.

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

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

Facts do not constitute truth.

I think the reality is important anyway.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.