A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

False leaders create followers by lying.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.