Truth Quotes

"In silence, the voice of conscience becomes unmistakable."

"A single act of honesty can realign an entire life."

"I have always thought that the surest way to keep a secret is to never tell it."

"Nothing is more difficult than truth and nothing is more awful than falsehood."

"Nothing is so unbelievable as the truth."

"The truth, however painful, is always preferable to comforting falsehood."

"Vanity is the pride of nature; it is peculiar to man."

"A man may smile and be a villain."

"Truth is stranger and more wonderful than fiction."

"Flattery is the food of vanity."

"Integrity is the soul of honor."

"The foundation of all virtue is truthfulness."

"The power of truth is invincible."

"Honesty is the best policy, though it is not the best revenue."

"None so blind as those who will not see."

"Praise is the surface money of the world, but only admiration is the real thing."

"Do not tell secrets in a field that is full of little hills."

"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it."

"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."

"The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

"To hear an honest man speak the truth is like an antidote to poison."

"Flattery is a base coin that no man ought to take."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting."

"The world has a right to know who a man is."

"The pursuit of truth requires both courage and humility."

"The burden of secrets grows heavier with time; truth lightens all loads."

"The truth we avoid today becomes the burden we carry tomorrow."

"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."

"Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off."