Quotes about Truth
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— George Eliot
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
— Isabel Allende
Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.
— Isabel Allende
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
— Isabel Allende
Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
— Isabel Allende
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
— Isabel Allende
Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.
— Isabel Allende
She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is
— Isabel Allende
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.
— Ashley Montagu