Salman Rushdie Quotes

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

Without facts you can't have truth.

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

The facts are on our side.

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

It is our responsibility not to make charges we can't substantiate

Time trieth truth.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

We need proof in our society.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.