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Category: Truth and Falsity

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1. "Humor is the same as truth, only faster."

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Other categories: Wit and Humor

2. "Court Room Trial: Manipulation of the facts by two High-Priced salesmen, each attempting to sell his own version of the truth."

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Other categories: Law and Crime

3. "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."

Philip Guedalla

Other categories: Various

4. "The true is inimitable, the false untransformable."

Robert Bresson

5. "Hell is truth seen too late."

John Locke

6. "Few things are as painful as the truth realized too late."

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Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

7. "Tell the masses a lie often enough and for long enough, sooner or later they will all believe it."

Joseph Goebbels

8. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."

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Other categories: Various -:- Reality and Imagination

9. "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana

Other categories: History and Nations

10. "Truth never damages a cause that is just."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Other categories: Justice

11. "Speak the truth but leave immediately after."

Slovenian proverb

12. "Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

13. "We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

14. "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Other categories: Law and Crime

15. "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Other categories: Various

16. "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Iosip Aleksandrovich Brodsky, "Less Than One: Selected Essays"

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

17. "And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to take part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

18. "Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else."

Mark Twain

Other categories: Memory

19. "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears."

Rudyard Kipling

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

20. "It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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21. "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

F.M. Cornford

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Politics and Diplomacy

22. "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout, "Death Of A Doxy"

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Various

23. "The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, "Journal"

24. "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

Claud Cockburn

25. "Exactitude is not truth."

Henri Matisse

26. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

27. "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

28. "Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. "

Louis-Ferdinand Céline , "Journey to the End of the Night"

29. "By doubting we come at truth."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other categories: Question and Problem

30. "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Various

31. "What is really beautiful must always be true."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal), "Armance"

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

32. "Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

33. "There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art."

Raymond Chandler

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology

34. "Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."

Horace Walpole, "Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795"

Other categories: Justice

35. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Sign of Four"

Other categories: Various

36. "I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

Christopher Hampton, "The Philanthropist"

37. "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

Khalil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

39. "Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

40. "A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."

Patrick Kavanagh, "Collected Prose"

41. "What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

Benjamin Disraeli

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

42. "Two left-handed gloves don’t make a pair. Two half-truths don’t make a truth."

Multatuli (Eduard Douwer Dekker), "The Oyster and the Eagle"

43. "Nobody dies of fatal truths these days: there are too many antidotes."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

44. "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: Time and Passing

45. "You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization."

Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"

Other categories: Various

46. "Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies."

Spanish proverb

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

47. "All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies."

George Bernard Shaw

Other categories: Egoism

48. "We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart."

Hector Hugh Munro (Saki), "The Unbearable Bassington"

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

49. "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Abraham Lincoln

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

50. "There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."

Raoul Vaneigem, "The Revolution of Everyday Life"

Other categories: Science and Technology

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