Truth quotes on honesty, facts and lies, from Pascal and Byron to Orwell and Churchill, each checked to its source.
Albert Einstein · From his message for the Gandhi memorial service, 11 February 1948.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on Stanley Baldwin, in the Commons in 1936.
Winston Churchill · The source reads: “They are a class of right honorable gentlemen, all good men, all honest men, who are ready to make great sacrifices for their opinions, but they have no opinions. They are ready to die for the truth if they only knew what the truth was.” · Churchill on a class of honourable members with no opinions.
Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli · Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain; not found in Disraeli's works.
Winston Churchill · Churchill on hope.
The Bible · Isaiah 5:20
Oscar Wilde · The source reads: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” · From the dialogue "The Critic as Artist".
George Bernard Shaw
Albert Einstein · To A. Nickerson, a Baptist pastor, July 1953.
George Berkeley
Winston Churchill · The source reads: “The truth is uncontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may destroy it, but there it is.” · Churchill in the Commons in May 1916.
The Bible · John 8:32
Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 7 May 1925
Albert Einstein · From The Goal of Human Existence, a broadcast of 11 April 1943.
James Callaghan · Often credited to Mark Twain; Callaghan in the Commons 1976.
Albert Einstein · To the editor of the Japanese magazine Kaizo, 20 September 1952.
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