Quotes About Honesty

Seek truth from facts.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.