John Berger Quotes

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I will not be misquoted!

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

We've all grown wary of being lied to online - let's face it, dudes are always exaggerating their heights - so trust is a hot commodity.

Everybody is always like, 'You must be a really good liar,' and no, I'm actually a truth teller, and I'm telling someone else's truth. If I'm lying, then I'm not doing my job correctly.

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Truth usually stammers at first.

So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.