Quotes About Veracity

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

if you say the truth you don't have to remember anything

If we never lied , there would be nothing to remember.

Wenn du die Wahrheit sagst, brauchst du kein gutes Gedächtnis.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No good can ever come of falsehood

The good poem allows us to believe we have a soul. In the presence of a good poem we remember/discover the soul has an appetite, and that appetite is for emotional veracity and for the unsayable. The general condition of the soul, therefore, is stoic hunger, stoic loneliness. Paul Eluard wrote, "There is another world, and it is in this one." The not so good poem isn't able to startle us into consideration of that world. The soul is never pricked into wakefulness.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

I don't like people lying; I like honesty.

Prabaker has a disappointing habit of telling everybody the truth.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.

The fact-checking site PolitiFact judged that an astonishing 69 percent of the public statements by Trump they checked were "Mostly False

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

TELL THE TRUTH—OR, AT LEAST, DON'T LIE

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.