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Quotes About Truth

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
~ Michel de Montaigne
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
~ Samuel Johnson
Time can never mend the careless whisper of a good friend. To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind. There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
~ George Michael
Only your best friends will tell you the truth and bear the risk of losing the friendship because they can't afford to watch you lose your life.
~ Terry Mark
Anybody can listen to your problems. A friend will give you advice to try to make you feel better. A best friend will tell you the truth-good, bad, or ugly.
~ Unknown
Give me nothing if not honesty. I don't want it and won't have it any other way!
~ Unknown
One day, you will know the truth, one day you will know the meaning of life, one day you will find out who you are and live life with soul. Look at the stars my friend. Happy Birthday from the good people who love you.
~ Unknown
Be a best friend, tell the truth, overuse I Love You and Love Like Crazy.
~ Unknown
Only enemies tell the truth, friends and lovers lie endlessly.
~ Unknown
An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
~ Unknown
Never deceive a friend.
~ Unknown
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth
~ Herman Melville
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
~ Jose Ramos-Horta
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~ Albert Camus
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~ David Hume
Happiness and intimate friendship is the rainbow between two hearts sharing seven colours love, sadness, happiness truth, faith, trust and respect.
~ Unknown
The truth will not fetch you many friends, but it will fetch you honest friends.
~ Terry Mark
There can be no friendship without confidence; and no confidence, without integrity
~ Page Smith
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
~ Proverb
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
~ Barry Goldwater