C. S. Lewis Quotes

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

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

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

I have been saying this from the beginning: people are going to say whatever they want to say or believe whatever they want to believe. I say this to people: stick to the facts.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Seek truth from facts.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

If you judge, investigate.

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.