Winston Churchill Quotes on Truth
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The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.
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All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
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I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.