George Bernard Shaw on Truth

"Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty."

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly tell our children that honesty is the best policy."

"When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy."

"Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession."

"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."

"To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."

"When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true: what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him."