Truth and falsehood Quotes

Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be

The real truths are those that can be invented

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues

A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her boots

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.