Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

The truth is a good thing.

Truth is a great flirt.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I am not honest.

It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The truth is overrated.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.

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.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

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

Truth is the best defense.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.