
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
- Topic: Honesty, Reputation, Truth
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
› William Faulkner
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
› Franklin Roosevelt
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
› Joseph Conrad
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!
› Audrey Hepburn
Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.
› Voltaire
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.
› George Orwell
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
› Henry David Thoreau
False leaders create followers by lying.
› Jeffrey Benjamin
For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.
› Samuel Butler
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
› Rene Descartes
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
› John F. Kennedy
