"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, scientist and philosopher (1742-1799)

"Advertising is legalized lying." H.G. Wells, writer (1866-1946)

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." Elvis Presley

"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'" Quincy Jones




"Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above water." Miguel de Cervantes

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie." Ann Landers

"They can't get your goat, unless you tell them where it's tied!" Unknown

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true." William Inge

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." Mohandas Gandhi

"A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." Unknown

"It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required." van Goncharov, novelist (1812-1891)

"Men hate those to whom they have to lie." Victor Hugo

"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash." Louis Aragon

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." Mark Twain

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

"Journalists do not believe the lies of politicians, but they do repeat them -- which is even worse!" Michel Colucci, comedian and actor (1944-1986)

"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." H. L. Mencken

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." Abraham Lincoln

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." Stephen King

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." Buddha

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth." John F. Kennedy (October 26, 1963)

"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt." Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always." Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

"To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding."Ken Wilber, Eye of Spirit

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

“Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with truth.” Thich Nhat Hahn

"A half truth is a whole lie." Yiddish proverb

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein

“When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange---my youth.”Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933)

“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.” Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

“Time wears away error and polishes truth.” Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

“There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.” Chinese proverb

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)