David Kay Quotes

That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true, ... But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

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

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.