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

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Facts are stubborn things.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

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.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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

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

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The worst crime is faking 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.

The truth is lived, not taught.

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

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

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

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

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.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

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.

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.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Error is always more busy than truth.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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

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

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.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

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