Quotes About Integrity

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.