Quotes about truth and lies
458 quotes from 240 people
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936In The Daily News (25 February 1905)
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Often credited to Martin Luther King Jr.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Frequently attributed to Aldous Huxley (possibly to Brave New World Revisited) but not traced to a reliable source.Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
- ?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost1874–1963North of Boston (1914), The Black Cottage
