Quotes About Honesty

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.

truth is a letter from courage!

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

It takes few words to tell the truth.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.