Quotes About Truth

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

All our geese are swans.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Beware of him that telleth tales.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

English proverb

Death and taxes are inevitable.