Quotes About Consequences

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

The truth is that perhaps everything has a price, but certainly everyone has to pay more price only for their lies.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .

If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.