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.

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

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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.

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

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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

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

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.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

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

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

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

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Seeing is not always believing.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

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

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

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.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.