Truth

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ‘weasel words’. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ‘weasel word’ after another, there is nothing left of the other.

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

You can’t pray a lie.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

The color of truth is gray.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.