There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

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

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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

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

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.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

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

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn’t do with anything else, we just have to do it.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

If you’re a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

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

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

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

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

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

And 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.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

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.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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 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.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Truth is a pathless land.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

Science is but an image of the truth.

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

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.