Truth & Lies Quotes

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.