Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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.

No lie ever reaches old age.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Let him say what is true, let him say what is pleasing, let him utter no disagreeable truth, and let him utter no agreeable falsehood; that is the eternal law.

Wegh-wu-law-mo-end, The Man Who Talks The 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.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

I consider myself an honest soul.

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.

Truthfulness is godliness.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.