Quotes on Nothing But The Truth

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?

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

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

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

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