Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"The truth will always outlast any lie, no matter how well told."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"To understand your enemy, you must first understand yourself without illusion."
Alfred von Schlieffen
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"A map drawn in the moment of battle is more truthful than the most detailed plan drawn in peace."
Alfred von Schlieffen
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"The truth of a situation emerges not from its telling but from its outcome."
Alfred von Schlieffen
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"Believe nothing you hear, and half of what you see."
Arthur Wellesley
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"I prefer a man who is loyal to the truth than one who is loyal to me."
Arthur Wellesley
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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."
Arthur Wellesley
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"A man's true measure is revealed in times of crisis."
Helmuth von Moltke
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"The world judges us by our actions, not our intentions."
Napoléon III
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"The truth has a power that no lie can ever match."
Napoléon III
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"A moment of truth reveals the mettle of a man's character."
Napoléon III
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"I have always observed that whatever I have found to be true and right I must do, regardless of the consequences."
Robert E. Lee
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"The principles which I have endeavored to maintain throughout my life are more precious to me than life itself."
Robert E. Lee
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"The true test of character comes in moments when no one is watching."
Robert E. Lee
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"I have always endeavored to conduct the affairs of this office with strict integrity."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"The honest truth is the best policy in the long run."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"Truth will prevail in the end."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"I have always valued integrity above all else."
William Tecumseh Sherman
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"The truth is the best vindication against slander."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"I am a believer in the old maxim that 'honesty is the best policy.'"
Ulysses S. Grant
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"I am glad to see that in the efforts to discover the truth we are both sincere."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"I have always found that those who are honest suffer the least."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"The greatest enemy of truth is complacency."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"A nation that values truth will always prevail."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"In all my communications I have been strictly truthful."
Horatio Nelson
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"The measure of a man lies in what he does when no one is watching."
Robert E. Lee
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"The truth, however difficult, is always preferable to comfortable falsehood."
Robert E. Lee
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"A promise kept is worth more than a thousand promises made."
Napoléon III
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"To speak truth to power is an act of profound courage."
Napoléon III