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Quotes About Honesty

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
~ Ken Kesey
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
~ Mel Brooks
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
~ Vanessa Kerry
Truth never changes. Truth always sets people free.
~ Cynthia Robinson
You can't argue with the truth.
~ Haaz Sleiman
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
~ Johnny Depp
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
~ Will Rogers
I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
~ Gerard Way
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
~ Aldous Huxley
I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.
~ Future
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
~ Khalil Gibran
It's my job as a reporter to not be about the business of making friends or enemies but just be in the tireless pursuit of truth.
~ Stephen A. Smith
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
~ Harry S Truman
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you tell the truth, you don't have to change your testimony.
~ Andrew Gillum
Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.
~ El-P
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
~ Dean Stanley
Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.
~ Bikram Choudhury