Anthony Kennedy Quotes

Seek truth from facts.

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

Certainly today we are incredibly tolerant of untruth.

We need a world where the values of science are celebrated: free inquiry, free speech and a healthy skepticism, all coupled with a sense of wonder, a respect for truth and an ability to reason.

When truth and error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Most of the people I write about I'm still in touch with, so I would be loath to make up stuff about them.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.