Truth Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth

— George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

— George Bernard Shaw

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

— George Bernard Shaw

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

— George Bernard Shaw

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

— George Bernard Shaw

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

— George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

— George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

— George Bernard Shaw

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

— George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best…

— George Bernard Shaw

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

— George Bernard Shaw

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

— George Bernard Shaw

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally…

— George Bernard Shaw

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it…

— George Bernard Shaw

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

— George Bernard Shaw

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the…

— George Bernard Shaw

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has…

— George Bernard Shaw

“CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tell other people the truth; but…

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take…

— George Bernard Shaw

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot…

— George Bernard Shaw

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men…

— George Bernard Shaw

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths…

— George Bernard Shaw

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act…

— George Bernard Shaw

In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

— George Bernard Shaw

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

— George Bernard Shaw

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

— George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

— George Bernard Shaw