What is truth? Such a timely topic these days, now that we seem to be in the post-truth era. I gathered these quotes on the meaning of truth from my favorite quote site, The Quotations Page.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell (1903 – 1950)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr (1885 – 1962)
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Lenin (1870 – 1924)
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman (1884 – 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), Annajanska (1919)
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas (1898 – 1980)
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007), Cold Turkey
If you want the truth, ask a child.
French Proverb
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
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