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Quotes About Integrity

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope
~ Dalai Lama
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
~ William Sloane Coffin
Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you're willing to do anything for it.
~ Elie Tahari
Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.
~ Aeschylus
There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.
~ Sohrab Vossoughi
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
~ Plato
Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
~ Andrei Platonov
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.
~ Mark Nepo
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!
~ Juvenal
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
~ Terry Pratchett
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
~ Bob Dylan
... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
~ Jack McDevitt
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
~ Brene Brown
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
~ Boris Pasternak
Conquer a liar with truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
Truth never lost ground by enquiry.
~ William Penn
I deliver my Truth hot and hard.
~ Stephen Colbert
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
~ Don DeLillo
Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.
~ Madame de Stael
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
~ Karl Barth