Quotes About Honesty

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end.

When truth is on your side, you don't need support.

Let them say what they say. The truth is, I did not engage in corruption.

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

The truth is, you can be honest with your friends - but you just can't be honest with the general public if you want to keep your friends.

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

I always say this: 'In life, truth is on your side.'

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.