When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth because I filmed these scenes. That always and still seems to be nonsensical.
If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.
I don't believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don't think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful.
When people write lies about you, and you know that they are lies, that means that they don't know the truth.
I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is.
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
Usually we are saying only part of the truth.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.
