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Quotes About Truth

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
~ James Allen
Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.
~ Patti Callahan Henry
There is no excuse for cheating in a relationship.
~ Unknown
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself
~ Philip James Bailey
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
~ Adrienne Rich
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.
~ Tommy Lasorda
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
~ Robert Byrne
One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.
~ Franz Kafka
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
~ Pearl Bailey
I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
~ Sophocles
'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
~ Susannah Centlivre
If you succeed in cheating someone, don't think that the person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you deserved.
~ Unknown
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
~ Sallust
If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.
~ Jerry Springer
He's playing you because you're the only one who doesn't know.
~ Unknown
I spy with my little eye...bi...es everywhere who are bored with their lives and love to spread lies.
~ Unknown
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body
~ Edmund Burke
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
~ Unknown
Trust is a fragile thing once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom but once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us. - Mary Alice Young
~ Unknown
You may be condemned and sentenced to death by WORDS but if your Inner Conscience is clear, it will justify your innocence and uphold your Freedom within.
~ Terry Mark
To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power, honor and success. When we cling to personal power and success, when we are afraid of loosing social status, then we are in some way denying our humanity; we become slaves to our own needs, we are not free.
~ Jean Vanier
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism
~ Thomas Jefferson