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We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

— Vincent McNabb

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✓Similar Perspectives

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

— Mary Astell

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

— Ice Cube

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

— Peter Ustinov

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

— Michael Ondaatje

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

— Mencius

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

— Robert E. Lee

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

— Charles Seymour

✗Opposing Perspectives

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

— John Howard

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

— Johnny Isakson