There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

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.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‚The Dark Knight‘ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

The truth is lived, not taught.

The lie is a condition of life.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.