The enemies of truth are always awfully nice.

 —Christopher Morley

What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

 —Friedrich Nietzche

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.                   — Buddha

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.                                             

 —John F. Kennedy

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

 —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand.                                                                         —Josh Billings

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.                                                                              —Edith Sitwell

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort, and advantage. He lives… by make-believe.

 —W. Somerset Maugham

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie told well is immortal.

 —Mark Twain

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

—Winston Churchill

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

 —Thomas Jefferson

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

 —Denis Diderot

There is no truth. There is only perception.

 —Gustave Flaubert

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

 —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

 —Andre Gide