Truth and falsehood Quotes

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves

If you are out to describe the truth, leave the elegance to the tailor

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time

Anything is better than lies and deceit

Rumor grows while it goes

If wou want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The income tax has made more liars out of more Americans than golf has.