If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I do not pilfer victory.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

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.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

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

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

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

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

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.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I make pop culture.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

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.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.