Quotes About Truth

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The body never lies.

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree-that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.