Quotes About Truth

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

You can't pray a lie Huck Finn

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and then they would be honest so much earlier.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Well, mamma, the Indians believed they knew, but now we know they were wrong. By and by it can turn out that we are wrong. So now I only pray that there might be a God and a heaven – or something better.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.

I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.

Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception. It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham. Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one. It regarded itself as gold, and was only brass.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

Mark Twain. The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.

An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.

it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. 

Cuando recordamos que todos somos locos, la vida queda explicada