Bob Greene Quotes

The color of truth is gray.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

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

If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There is more than two sides. Facts are often apart from what both sides say about each other.

Journalism is not an exact science. At best it i a crude art.

It's about being right and trying to get the facts and get the story right, and inform, you know, the readership or the viewership. And there are some reporters that do that.

Documentaries are a form of journalism.

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

Journalism is not writing.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

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

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.