Quotes About Integrity

All truths are not to be told.

Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

Never break faith with the truth.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.