Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about Truth

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Funny, Witty, Truth

Attributed to Disraeli by Mark Twain in his 'Autobiography' (1924) vol. 1, p. 246

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

Funny, Truth, Communication

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Contarini Fleming, v. 2. Count Alarcos. Popanilla”

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Trust, Time, Truth

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth, Learning, History

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

Art, Truth, Honesty

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1865). ““Church and Queen.” Five speeches delivered by the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., 1860-1864. Edited, with a preface, by a member of the University of Oxford [i.e. the Hon. Frederick Lygon, afterwards Earl Beauchamp].”, p.72

I say that justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth, Justice, Political

'Hansard' 11 February 1851

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Benjamin Disraeli

Spiritual, Truth, Men

Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.17