Quotes about truth and lies
458 quotes from 240 people
One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Pensées Philosophiques (1746), No. 29The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
Bill Clintonborn 1946Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut, October 15, 1995Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Robert Graves1895–1985“The Persian Version,” lines 1–2, from Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques (1946)Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard Baruch1870–1965Deming Headlight (New Mexico), 6 January 1950, as cited in the Yale Book of Modern Proverbs and at There Are Opinions, And Then There Are Facts; Freakonomics blog post by Fred R. Shapiro (18 August 2011)Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882Miss Mackenzie (1865), Ch. 13But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzeeborn 1940Slow Man (2005)Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986“Honest People Have Rights, Too” (February 8, 1960).
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Letter to His Wife (1835).
E. M. Forster1879–1970Two Cheers for Democracy (1951), “Anonymity: An Enquiry”
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950“Rungs of the Ladder”, BBC Radio broadcast (11 July 1932)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Problem of Peace (1954)
George Harrison1943–2001The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 267
Werner Herzogborn 1942Minnesota declaration (1999)
Fidel Castro1926–2016Camp Columbia, Havana (Jan. 8th, 1959), Fidel Castro Reader, pp. 133