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Quotes About Honesty

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
~ George Michael
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
~ Harry S Truman
You never monkey with the truth.
~ Ben Bradlee
The truth does not need to be defended.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
~ Michael Kinsley
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
~ Joan of Arc
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
~ Bayard Rustin
Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.
~ Lee Mack
Speaking truth to power is actually a form of loyalty.
~ Richard N. Haass
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
~ Alexander Pope
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
~ William Bernbach
A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
~ Yogi Berra
Humility is truth.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don't like the truth.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
~ Cate Blanchett
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
~ Seamus Heaney
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
~ John Milton
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
~ Said Nursi
There's is a fine line between living one's truth and looking good.
~ Amala Akkineni
Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.
~ Jackie Shroff
Truth cannot be defeated.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.
~ Joyce Brothers