Quotes About Truth

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.