Quotes About Integrity

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

My body gets weak without truth.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.