Quotes about truth and lies
458 quotes from 240 people
If you ever injected truth into politics you’d have no politics.
Will Rogers1879–1935Syndicated column, “A Few Shots of Scopolamin” (15 July 1923)
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Radio address (26 October 1939), as reported in The Baltimore Sun (27 October 1939)This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
Philip Roth1933–2018The Human Stain (2000)Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth1933–2018The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography (1988), opening letter to Nathan ZuckermanThe work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume III
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Attributed to Russell in Distilled Wisdom (1964) by Alfred Armand Montapert, p. 145- Bertrand Russell1872–1970BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston (1948)
- Bertrand Russell1872–1970Fact and Fiction (1961), Part II, Ch. 10: “University Education”, p. 153
- Bertrand Russell1872–1970On History (1904)
- Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism (1914)Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 135- Carl Sagan1934–1996The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1: The Most Precious Thing, p. 12
