Quotes About Truth

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.

Lying rides upon debts back.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source.

God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.

but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Half a truth is often a great lie

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus. translation (non-literal): O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors. — Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography

This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.

nothing was useful which was not honest.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.

convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.

He that speaks much is much mistaken.