Quotes About Truth

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

That life wouldn't get any easier as I got older. If anything, it would only get harder as I grew up to the realization, as he apparently had, that all our beliefs were built on a flimsy scaffolding of stories, and that happiness was nothing but a wish and love was only a lie.

There is a common ground upon which all sincere votaries of truth may meet, exchanging with each other the language of Flamsteed's appeal to Newton, "The works of the Eternal Providence will be better understood through your labors and mine.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you've got it made.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.

It takes knowledge and experience to say precisely and consisely what is true and what is needed. Scholarship often excels in lofty learning and deep digging to emphasise what we knew all along. Adrian Hawkes' little book, based on real life, bring us what so many don't know and greatly need to know. I would not be ashamed to put it alongside many weighty volumes on my study shelves.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

There is no danger to a man, that knows What life and death is: there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful That he should stoop to any other law.