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Quotes About Honesty

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
~ Stephen R. Covey
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
~ Dogen
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
~ Roger Williams
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.
~ Rick Pitino
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
~ James Thurber
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
~ George Washington
I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.
~ Joseph Estrada
Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.
~ Bob Arum
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
~ Kevin O'Leary
Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
~ Harry Frankfurt
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
~ Ben Bradlee
I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.
~ Ron Killings
The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
~ Harlan Coben
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
~ Austin O'Malley
When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
~ Deepak Chopra
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'
~ Randy Pausch
Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.
~ Diogenes
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
~ Voltaire
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
~ Yahtzee Croshaw
Country music is three chords and the truth.
~ Harlan Howard
Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth
~ Socrates