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Truth & Honesty Quotes Truth sits upon the lips
of dying men. The truth shall make
you free. Honesty is the rarest
wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't
lawful tender for a loaf of bread. A truth that's told with
bad intent Truth exists, only falsehood
has to be invented. For truth there is no
deadline. No one can earn a million
dollars honestly. Truth, crushed to earth,
shall rise again. Acting is all about honesty.
If you can fake that you've got it made. The easiest person to
deceive is one's self. There is a case for telling
the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no
possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell
the truth 'Tis strange - but true;
for truth is always strange; Truth, like light, blinds.
Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every
object. Truth is the highest
thing that man may keep. In wartime, truth is
so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. It is a fine thing to
be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Men stumble over the
truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened. The truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there
it is. The exact contrary of
what is generally believed is often the truth. The truth will make you
free, but first it will make you miserable. When you have eliminated
the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Whoever is careless with
the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. The highest compact we
can make with our fellow is - Truth is beautiful, without
doubt; but so are lies. You can't cheat an honest
man. Truth is the glue that
holds government together. A lie stands on one leg,
truth on two. Even if all parts of
a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one
has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth
and the truth not always probable. Truth is completely spontaneous.
Lies have to be taught. Truth never damages a
cause that is just. Whores are the most honest
girls. They present the bill right away. Believe those who are
seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. Champagne, if you are
seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man
to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge
to tell lies successfully. The truth has never been
of any real value to any human being--it is a symbol for mathematicians
and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are
worth a thousand truths. A society committed to
the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon,
the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping,
however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in
large measure, that the effective search for truth depends. Truth made you a traitor
as it often does in a time of scoundrels. I don't care what is
written about me so long as it isn't true. Honesty pays, but it
doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. An unexciting truth may
be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you mad. All truth, in the long
run, is only common sense clarified. The spirit of truth and
the spirit of freedom--they are the pillars of society. The road to truth is
long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. The advertisement is
the most truthful part of a newspaper. It is always the best
policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally
good liar. Truth is the safest lie. Have patience awhile;
slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she
shall appear to vindicate thee. Beauty is truth, truth
beauty,-that is all The great enemy of the
truth is very often not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest-
but the myth- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. It's the truth even if
it didn't happen. Honesty is the best policy,
but insanity is a better defense. In the province of the
mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. The greatest homage we
can pay to truth, is to use it. Peace if possible, but
truth at any rate. I would not favour a
fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would
keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to.
It is truth... that saves the world. Man has no nobler function
than to defend the truth. Truth uttered before
its time is dangerous. It is hard to believe
that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if
you were in his place. The smallest atom of
truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable
chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump
and a soul roasting in hell. I never know how much
of what I say is true. The dictum that truth
always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which
men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which
all experience refutes. Servant of God, well
done! well hast thou fought Truth is as impossible
to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Let us begin by committing
ourselves to the truth- to see it like it is, and tell it like it is-
to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. I preach there are all
kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them
there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. Political language. .
. is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and
to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. Truth never envelops
itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped
is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself. He who does not bellow
the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars
and forgers. Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth. All truth passes through
3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third,
it is accepted as being self-evident. This above all; to thine
own self be true. Though I am not naturally
honest, I am so sometimes by chance. Truth is truth When my love swears that
she is made of truth, All great truths begin
as blasphemies. The simple step of a
courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth
outweighs the world. The truth is always the
strongest argument. Truly, to tell lies is
not honorable; There are only two ways
of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. The moment we begin to
fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in
us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the
divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. What is the difference
between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses
falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to
deceive the public. You will find that the
truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and
disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are
suckers for good news. It is better to be quotable
than to be honest. Change lays not her hand
upon truth. Rather than love, than
money, than fame, give me truth. There is not greatness
where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. I am different from Washington;
I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not
lie. I can lie, but I wont. Truth is stranger than
fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities;
Truth isn't. Beware of the half truth.
You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. There are truths which
are not for all men, nor for all occasions. I have found that nothing
so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. A thing is not necessarily
true because a man dies for it. I have never seasoned
a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily
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