Truth and falsehood Quotes

A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.

I have kept nothing of what I have said or written.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time

If wou want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction

When in doubt tell the truth

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home

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

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

But facts are facts and flinch not

Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

The real truths are those that can be invented

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics