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Category: Truth and Falsity

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1. "Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Time and Passing

2. "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Memory

3. "He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return."

Graham Greene

4. "Truth is what stands the test of experience."

Albert Einstein

5. "It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. "

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Le Siecle de Louis XIV"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

6. "The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence."

Rabindranath Tagore

7. "If you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither."

Josh Billings

8. "Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

9. "There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."

Ernest Hemingway

10. "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

Samuel Butler

11. "Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. "Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Love

13. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Arthur Schopenhauer

14. "Love truth, but pardon error."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

15. "Truth is no road to fortune."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Richness and Money

16. "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

André Gide

17. "Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth."

Benjamin Disraeli

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

William Faulkner

19. "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

Abraham Lincoln

20. "An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Various

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21. "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

Lev Tolstoy

22. "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics."

Benjamin Disraeli

23. "Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so."

Samuel Butler

24. "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

25. "To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

26. "I'm not smart enough to lie."

Ronald Reagan

27. "Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli, (or Joseph Joubert)

Quotations about: Justice

28. "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Art and Culture

29. "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

30. "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates

Quotations about: Good and Evil

31. "I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

32. "When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

George Bernard Shaw

33. "Advertising is legalized lying."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Various

34. "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."

Winston Churchill

35. "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

36. "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector."

Graham Greene

37. "What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joseph Joubert

38. "Science seems to be at war with itself. Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false. "

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Science and Technology

39. "He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."

Michel de Montaigne

40. "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

41. "Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."

Herbert George Wells

42. "Half the Truth is often a great Lie."

Benjamin Franklin

43. "Life is short and truth works far and long: let us speak the truth."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Life and Death

44. "The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter"

45. "Truth is the light; So you never give up the fight."

Bob Marley

46. "It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth."

Alexis de Tocqueville

47. "The search for truth is more precious than its possession."

Albert Einstein

48. "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities, truth isn't."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

49. "When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Memory

50. "Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor."

Rabindranath Tagore

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