Quotes About Truth

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Appearances are deceptive.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

As a matter of fact it wouldn't be safe to tell any man the truth about his wife! Funnily enough, I'd trust most women with the truth about their husbands. Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away …