Zhuangzi Quotes

I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

In this Day the secrets of the earth are laid bare before the eyes of men. The pages of swiftly-appearing newspapers are indeed the mirror of the world. They reflect the deeds and the pursuits of diverse peoples and kindreds. They both reflect them and make them known. They are a mirror endowed with hearing, sight and speech. This is an amazing and potent phenomenon. However, it behooveth the writers thereof to be purged from the promptings of evil passions and desires and to be attired with the raiment of justice and equity. They should enquire into situations as much as possible and ascertain the facts, then set them down in writing.

In the performance of your duties, neither be over-zealous, nor indifferent. When you do not know of a thing, say so plainly. In the narration of facts, refrain from poetising.

Stick to the truth, avoid exaggeration.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

Journalism should be truthful and entertaining. You know, with news and important facts you can entertain people too. Have a little humor. Life isn't all that deadly all the time, but while you're having fun, tell the truth. If every word of a column is deadly serious, I can't read it. It makes me throw up.

I would stand upon facts.

I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

The stronger the facts are there, you should achieve justice. You don't need to make sensationalized statements.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.

There's just no substitute for the truth.

The facts are facts and records are records.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.