Quotes about truth and lies
458 quotes from 240 people
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
Emily Dickinson1830–1886“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” (J1129 / Fr1263, c. 1872), first published in Bolts of Melody (1945)Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit liesEmily Dickinson1830–1886“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” (J1129 / Fr1263, c. 1872), first published in Bolts of Melody (1945)
Denis Diderot1713–1784Pensées Philosophiques (1746)One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it.
Denis Diderot1713–1784Pensées Philosophiques (1746), No. 29All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorowborn 1971Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)Though Truth and Falsehood be
Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.
John Donne1572–1631Satires, No. 3
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II- Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to Mme. N. D. Fonvisin (1854), in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family and Friends (1914), trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Letter XXI, p. 71
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), I
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), ch. V
Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IVIn context
