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

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

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.

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

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.

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.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Truth is what works.

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

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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

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.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

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.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

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.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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

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.

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

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

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

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.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

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