Quotes About Truth

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Terminological inexactitude

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

Man is the measure of all things.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Modesty died when false modesty was born.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should close instantly with the offer.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Accurate information is a key part of motivation.