Quotes About Truthfulness

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

I like my mimosas like I like my men...transparent.

Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.

I'm a plain speaker.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

I've always spoken my mind and from the heart.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.

My grandfather often quoted it, and said that the rule of moral balance is the opposite of the behaviour described in that sentence. It means not lying to ourselves about the significance of, and the reasons for, what we do and what we don't do. It means not looking for justifications, not manipulating the account we make of ourselves to anyone, including ourselves.

Be sincere always

I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

Whatever I feel uncomfortable about, I just say it.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

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

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.