Quotes About Truthfulness

I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Be prepared and be honest.

Always speak the truth.

The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

Do the truth quietly without display.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

Never break faith with the truth.

Tell the truth, even if they do look at you funny.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

I believe in telling the truth.

i will always tell you the truth.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

This is what I am trying to do across the board," says MacKaye. "If you're going to see me play music, that's the way it will manifest. If you came over to my house, you'd see the way I live. If I make you dinner, you'll see the food I eat.

If 68 was a supporter of the president, it was likely she was a law-and-order hard-liner—not good for a guy accused of murder. That this person would continue to support the president after the media had documented his many, many untruths was a factor as well. It was blind loyalty to a cause, and an indicator that truthfulness was not an important part of her framework.

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.

In their friends people like to see a certain affluence in their ready smile They seldom care for warmth and truthfulness. So why not find your friends in song and nature?

In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.

What would Buddha do to be happy? "Seek health, the greatest blessing; follow virtue. Listen to people; read good books and learn. Be truthful; break the chain of sad attachment. These six paths lead to the greatest good." Jatakas 84

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.