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Quotes About Honesty

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~ Albert Einstein
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
~ John Calvin
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
~ William Sloane Coffin
Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth.
~ Iceberg Slim
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
~ Solon
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~ Curt Weldon
Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
~ Ron Paul
Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.
~ James D'arcy
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
~ Jane Austen
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
~ Charles Colson
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~ Winston Churchill
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
~ Patrick Lencioni
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf
If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.
~ J. Reuben Clark
Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.
~ Conor McGregor
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
~ H. L. Mencken
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
~ Gregg Allman
An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.
~ Anthony Trollope
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
~ Chester A. Arthur
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
~ Hugh Laurie
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
~ Julian Assange