Truth & Lies Quotes

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.

I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.

The truth is always a trick to those who live among lies.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved.