Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

When you're getting your facts from people, consider the way that they are being given to you.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

There are two sides to every question.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

The color of truth is gray.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.