There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

Truth is what works.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

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

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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

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

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

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.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

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.

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.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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.

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

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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

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

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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.

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

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

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.

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

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

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