Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

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

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Honesty is the best policy.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.