Thomas Sowell

Lying rides upon debt’s back.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

The bullsh*t is more interesting than the truth.

Truth isn’t truth.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.