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  • Veracity is the heart of morality. -- Thomas Huxley
  • Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. -- George Eliot
  • As a memoirist, I strive for veracity. -- Mary Karr
  • Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. -- Callie Khouri
  • The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. -- Roger Mudd
  • One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I? -- David Tang
  • Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? -- Marcel Duchamp
  • The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up. -- Michael Hirst
  • The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth. -- Bob Graham
  • It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it. -- Michael Morpurgo
  • Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. -- John Calvin
  • I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. -- Callie Khouri
  • The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor -- Margaret Mitchell
  • Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity. -- Sissela Bok
  • Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. -- Thomas Gray
  • "O' course I came to look arter you, my darlin'," replied Mr. Weller; for once permitting his passion to get the better of his veracity. -- Charles Dickens
  • Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose. -- Charles Kimball
  • Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva. -- Dmitriy Ustinov
  • To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit. -- David Hume
  • What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? -- David Hume
  • One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong. -- Roy DeCarava
  • Whenever the spirit of fanaticism, at once so credulous and so crafty, has insinuated itself into a noble mind, it insensibly corrodes the vital principles of virtue and veracity. -- Edward Gibbon
  • That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  • A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality. -- Socrates
  • Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love. -- Hafez
  • I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell. -- Errol Morris
  • ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853) -- John Ruskin
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