Quotes About Truth

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment.

To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world—to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish—is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to maintain the iconography of our ignorance.

Clearly, the chief enemy of open conversation is dogmatism in all its forms. Dogmatism is a well-recognized obstacle to scientific reasoning, and yet, because scientists have been reluctant even to imagine that they might have something prescriptive to say about values, dogmatism is still granted remarkable scope on questions of both truth and goodness under the banner of religion

I do not remember what I thought about lying before I took "The Ethical Analyst," but the course accomplished as close to a firmware upgrade of my brain as I have ever experienced. I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.

All those books…which the church regards as sacred and canonical were written with all their parts under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Now, far from admitting the coexistence of error, Divine inspiration by itself excludes all error, and that also of necessity, since God, the Supreme Truth, must be incapable of teaching error.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane) It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)