Tacitus Quotes

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Rumors are always interesting, but they're seldom right.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot.

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.