The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.