Quotes About Truth

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

the devil is not so black as he is painted.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.

To be fool enough to believe a ramping, stamping, thumping lie: that is what you call sincerity!

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocrisy? If people arrange the world that way for women, theres no good pretending it's arranged the other way...

You can't rationally argue out what wasn't rationally argued in.

CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts.

What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think?

Nothing that's worth saying is proper.

the truth about the paradoxes of Bernard Shaw. Each of them is an argument impatiently shortened into an epigram. Each of them represents a truth hammered and hardened, with an almost disdainful violence until it is compressed into a small space, until it is made brief and almost incomprehensible.

All truths begin as blasphemies.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

church. Therefore, people will believe whatever is preached because they don't read the Word of God for themselves.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.