Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Facts are stubborn things.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Time discovers truth.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

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.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Tell the children the truth.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

The lie is a condition of life.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.