Quotes About Truth

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

Don't believe everything you read.

Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.

I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.