10 Winston Churchill Quotes on Truth

Winston Churchill quotes on truth

19. The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

52. 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.

134. 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.'

137. 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.

145. In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

150. 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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176. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

186. Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.

214. 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.

219. I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.