Nothing But The Truth Quotes - Page 2

• To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Criticism, Important, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “1914-1919”

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• A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  God, Lying, Science

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• Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Air, Hands, Rock And Roll

  Song: Get The Picture

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• The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Reality, People, Fantasy

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• You get nothing but the truth from me.

  RZA

  Source: www.rappersiknow.com

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Honesty, Powerful

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• 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?

  Richard Russo

  Regret, Father, Feelings

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• He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.441, Faber & Faber

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• The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

  Jacques Maritain

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Doe

  Jacques Maritain (2015). “Existence and the Existent”, p.104, Paulist Press

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• It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

  C. D. Broad

  Truth, Would Be, World

  C. D. Broad (2011). “Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960”, p.319, Routledge

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• If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

  Chuck Pagano

  Ifs

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  Samuel Butler

  Bible, Biblical, May

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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