Plato Quotes

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

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

I am not honest.

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

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

I don't like to tell lies.

Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

I just have an inability to lie.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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.

I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.

I'm not one for lying to children.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

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