Truth & Lies Quotes

A lie cannot live.

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

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

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Don't be "consistent" but be simply true.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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

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

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.

I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.

The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

A man never lies as much as after a hunt, during a war, and before an election.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

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

It's not enough to speak, but to speak true.

There are a lot of lies going around...and half of them are true.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Great liars are also great magicians.

This truth should be kept constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and poise indispensable to the permanent success of self-government.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.