Quotes About Integrity

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

Hear the truth from whomever says it

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

The truth will always have a market.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.