Famous Quotes

"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity."

George Orwell on Truth

More quotes about Truth

• "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

  Marcus Aurelius on Truth

• "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."

  Albert Einstein on Truth

• "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

  Buddha on Truth

• "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Truth

• "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

  Winston Churchill on Truth

More quotes by George Orwell

• "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

• "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

• "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

• "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."

• "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."