Truth Quotes

One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

~ Marissa Meyer

From what I’d witnessed, honesty didn’t really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

~ Tanya Thompson

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. 

~ Stefan Emunds

Nations, like men, are wary of truth, for truth is too often not beautiful.

~ Addison Gayle Jr.

I think I sense a tone of honesty, if honesty exists in this world.

~ Emilyann Girdner

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

~ Theognis

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.

~ Marty Rubin

Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.

~ Bartok

The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

~ Steve Maraboli

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

~ James Clavell

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

~ Melody Carstairs

But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

~ Shawn Lukas

I'll only tell you what matters. And, the truth is, everything matters.

~ Crystal Woods

Imagine if we had no secrets, no respite from the truth. What if everything was laid bare the moment we introduced ourselves?

~ Catherine Doyle

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action, the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.

~ Amit Kalantri

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

~ Jessica Lynch

Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate, he flatly insisted that he had no intention of abolishing slavery in states where it was already legal — he had to say this in order to slow the tide of secession.) Franklin Roosevelt lied about the U.S. position of neutrality until we entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Though the public and Congress believed his public pledge of impartiality, he was already working in secret with Winston Churchill and selling arms to France.) Ronald Reagan lied about Iran-Contra so much that it now seems like he was honestly confused. Politically, the practice of lying is essential. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton had already lied about many, many things. (He’d openly lied about his level of commitment to gay rights during the ’92 campaign.) The presidency is not a job for an honest man. It’s way too complex. If honesty drove the electoral process, Jimmy Carter would have served two terms and the 2008 presidential race would have been a dead heat between Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.

~ Tanya Thompson

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms” (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

~ Giacomo Casanova

Face the truth about what is standing in the way of your intention.

~ #Name?

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

~ Criss Jami

When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

~ G.k. Chesterton

For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night in darkened rooms where small children sleep. However, surely not in academia. Surely lying and deception do not occur among people who go to conferences, who write books, who testify in court, and who have PhDs.At one point I complained to a Florida judge that I was astonished to an expert witness lying on the stand [about child sexual abuse research]. I thought one had to tell the truth in court. I thought if someone didn't, she didn't get her milk and cookies. I thought God came down and plucked someone right out of the witness stand if he lied in court. I thought a lying expert witness would step out of court and get hit by a bus. A wiser woman than I, the judge's answer was, “Silly you.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Learned Author: Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

Whatever you tell; lie or truth, can both destroy or save you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit.

~ Owen Sheers

There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

~ Lou Bergholz

Complete honesty is not the same thing as full disclosure.

~ Ron Brackin

Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in the lunatic. He is the one least concerned of what I think of him, the mark of an honest man. I can always depend on him to be completely honest in what he thinks and feels, about anything, no matter the consequences laid before him, however with no course of rationale, I cannot necessarily take his word for even the well-being of him in his own reality.

~ Criss Jami

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

~ Tennessee Williams

Life's to short to spend it fighting when you could be holding the one you love. And love's to rare to squnder it with petty concerns. The Apolloite groom to Rafael

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

~ Shannon L. Alder