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Quotes About Honesty

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.
~ Simon Sinek
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
~ Shakira
The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute
~ Damian Marley
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
~ Walter Cronkite
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
~ Robert Breault
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
~ Mark Twain
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
~ Noam Chomsky
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
~ Isaac Newton
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.
~ Sasha Azevedo
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
~ Spencer Johnson
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
~ Vaclav Havel
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
~ Elvis Presley
Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
~ Lenny Bruce
Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.
~ Socrates
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
~ Dwight L. Moody
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
~ Vilhjalmur Stefansson
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
~ Neem Karoli Baba