Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

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.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

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

I do not pilfer victory.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

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.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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 a pathless land.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.