Fact Vs Truth Quotes

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

but even the facts do not always tell the truth

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.