Benjamin Franklin Quotes

You can't argue with the truth.

True information does good.

Truth, also is the pursuit of it.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Truth is the best defense.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Truth cannot be defeated.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

I will not be misquoted!

I deal in facts.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Everything I say is true.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

The core of my writing is not art but truth.