J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

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

I seek the truth.

There is no human objectivity.

In all your getting, get understanding.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.