Truth Cost Quotes

The definition of committing a gaff in Washington is telling the truth when most people think that you should not have.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.