Quotes About Truth

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

A confidence man knows he's lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says — and such belief is contagious; there is no limit to his scope.

If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

When you bury your head in the sand you leave your backside exposed to those who seek to take advantage.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.