Truth

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure .

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I’m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.