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Quotes About Veracity

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
~ Ben Jonson
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
~ Jonathan Swift
Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
~ Pietro Aretino
The truth can only be recalled, never invented.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Listen to my story and everything will come out true
~ Bessie Smith
I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.
~ Craig Ferguson
If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
~ Adrian Rogers
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Always speak the truth.
~ George Washington
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
~ Aristotle
All we can do is go around telling the truth.
~ Carson McCullers
Truth never was indebted to a lie
~ Edward Young
One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The law is agnostic about truth.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
~ David Tang
Error is always more busy than truth.
~ Hosea Ballou
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
~ Augustus William Hare
Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.
~ Virginia H. Pearce
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
~ George Eliot
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
~ Hesiod