Louis Theroux Quotes

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.

A rumor is just a rumor.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

Patriotism corrupts history.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious beliefs deserved more consideration than non-religious beliefs or anti-religious ones. I never agree with that foolish statement that I ought to respect the views of others when I believe them to be wrong.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!