Truth

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person’s mind begins to roam irretrievably. One’s fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Truth alone wounds.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

When in doubt tell the truth .

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The “why” is plain as way to parish church.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.

Take note, take note, O world! To be direct and honest is not safe.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Truth stands, even if there is no public support; it is self-sustained.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

Truth hath a quiet breast.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in ’t.

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.