Advantage Quote by Walter Raleigh

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

— John Quincy Adams

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

— Martin Luther

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that…

— Luis Bunuel

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it…

— John Tillotson

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

— Anonymous

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie.

— Devin Kelley

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

— Pindar

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer