It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Fear is the mother of morality.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The kind of fiction I’m trying to write is about telling the truth.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Honesty is the best policy.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.