Nothing But The Truth Quotes

• I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.

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  Sarah Waters

  Mad   Said   Nothing But The Truth  

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• Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

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  Vincent de Paul

  Truth   Lying   Humility  

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• It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

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  C. D. Broad

  Truth   Would Be   World  

  C. D. Broad (2011). “Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960”, p.319, Routledge

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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  Samuel Butler

  Bible   Biblical   May  

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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  John Keats

  Inspirational   Truth   Lying  

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

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• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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  Theodore Roosevelt

  Criticism   Important   President  

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

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• The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

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  Jacques Maritain

  Spiritual   Philosophy   Doe  

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

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• When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

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  Don King

  Lying   Boxing   Confusing  

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• I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

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  Richard Russo

  Regret   Father   Feelings  

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational   Funny   Life  

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

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  Daniel Webster

  Truth   Honesty   Powerful  

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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  Mark Twain

  Truth   Inspiration   Prevailing  

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

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  Miguel de Cervantes

  Fruitcake   Speak   Speak The Truth  

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.115

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• One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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  E. M. Forster

  History   Emotion   Certain  

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

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• You get nothing but the truth from me.

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  RZA

  Nothing But The Truth  

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• Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

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  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Speak   Dangerous   Nothing But The Truth  

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth   Mistake   Believe  

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

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  Aleksandar Hemon

  Reality   People   Fantasy  

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

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  William Osler

  Attitude   Science   Simple  

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

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  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Truth   Men   Shining  

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

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  Harri Holkeri

  Inspirational   Finals   Tables  

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• In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

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  Michael Musto

  Years   Ideas   Deception  

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• Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

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  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Law   Littles   Mystery  

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.317, Open Road Media

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• He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

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  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father   Mistake   Believe  

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.441, Faber & Faber

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• Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

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  Judith Martin

  Honesty   Needs   Rooms  

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• They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

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  Bernie Mac

  Health   Worry   Truth Is  

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• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

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  Alan Dershowitz

  Sports   Government   Law  

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

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  George Herbert

  Truth   Honesty   Lying  

  Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

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• Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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  Oscar Wilde

  Truth   Men   Forgive Me  

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

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• If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

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  Chuck Pagano

  Nothing But The Truth   Ifs  

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