Jorge Amado Quotes

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

I seek the truth.

I'm not pretending when I'm in that court room.

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.

I've never really dissed Ma$e - I just tell you the truth, and if you think he's a sucker for that, it ain't my fault.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

I write as a witness to what I have seen.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)