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Category: Truth and Falsity

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

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Egoism

2. "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"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

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

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

4. "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"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

5. "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."

Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"

6. "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

7. "The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Doctor?s Dilemma"

8. "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

9. "I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

Truman Capote

Quotations about: Various

10. "In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Authority, Government

11. "The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth."

Gaston Bachelard

12. "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Youth and Age

13. "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

John Arbuthnot

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

14. "The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Nadine Gordimer

15. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

Benjamin Disraeli, (Speech on January 24, 1860)

Quotations about: Various

16. "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Matthew Arnold, "Sohrab and Rustum"

Quotations about: Life and Death

17. "Truth, like climate, is common property."

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "Chapters from a Life"

18. "The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: God and Religion

19. "All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

20. "It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

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21. "There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

22. "You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

23. "One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

24. "If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Art and Culture

25. "You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

Pablo Picasso

Quotations about: Question and Problem

26. "Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""

Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

Quotations about: Various

27. "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen, "Pillars of Society"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

28. "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

29. "For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell, "Inside the Whale and Other Essays"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

30. "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Premiere Lettre sur Oedipe"

31. "It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

32. "In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

33. "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

Aldous Huxley, "Jesting Pilate"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

34. "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

35. "Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal -:- Woman and Man

36. "Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Love -:- Marriage

37. "Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Hubert Humphrey

Quotations about: Various -:- Trust

38. "We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

39. "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Work and Laziness

40. "Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last."

Greg Evans

Quotations about: Anger

41. "It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Aphorisms and Reflections"

42. "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

43. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

44. "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

Virginia Woolf

45. "I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

46. "Probability is truth in some degree."

Errol E. Harris, "Hypothesis and Perception"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

47. "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."

Danish proverb

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Law and Crime

48. "Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

49. "There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."

Francis Herbert Bradley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

50. "The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."

Ann Landers

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