Nadine Gordimer Quotes

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

The truth is more important than the facts

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

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

It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened.

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

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

Fact and fiction are different truths.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of a thing

Facts do not constitute truth.

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Life's all about perceptions.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

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

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.