Quotes About Veracity

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?

David Hume, the great­est skep­tic of them all, once remarked that after a gath­er­ing of skep­tics met to pro­claim the verac­i­ty of skep­ti­cism as a phi­los­o­phy, all of the mem­bers of the gath­er­ing nonethe­less left by the door rather than the win­dow. I see Hume's point. It was all just talk. The solemn philoso­phers weren't tak­ing what they said seri­ous­ly.

Saying the truth out loud makes it more real.

I only have one allegiance, and it's to the truth.

The truth has always been my greatest ally.

The democratic tradition offers better resources than the going alternatives for ensuring that political claims and counter-claims are tested for their veracity in the public arena, and for protecting those individual rights that best embody the aspiration for human freedom.

One lie will keep out forty truths.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

I hate liers. Just dont lie! I rather being sad cause someone did smt wrong but told me the truth, than happy with a lie.

It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.

truth is truth, regardless of whether it seems to be "anti" anything. It is foolish to cite racial or cultural prejudice as an argument against a theological doctrine when we are considering its veracity and not the motive for supporting

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

as Nietzsche puts it, "Honesty is the youngest of virtues"—in other words, it is the foster-child of industry, of modern industry. Without this mother, Veracity was like a blue-blood orphan whom only the most cultivated mind could adopt and nourish. Such minds were general among the samurai, but, for want of a more democratic and utilitarian foster-mother, the tender child failed to thrive.

And I know for a fact that those who "always have to tell the truth" are definitely lying (63)

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Speak a lie once and all your truth becomes questionable.

I'm not a particularly good liar.

I don't lie very well!

I don't like to tell lies.