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Quotes About Honesty

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
~ Jesse Ventura
The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.
~ Paulo Coelho
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
~ Han Suyin
I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.
~ Neal Barnard
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.
~ Rumi
At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.
~ Larry Clark
Are we willing to do for the truth what others are willing to do for a lie?
~ Walter Martin
To tell the truth is to become beautiful.
~ June Jordan
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.
~ Alan Watts
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.
~ Ron Paul
But the truth is the highest consideration.
~ Dorothea Dix
No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
~ Richard Yates
Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.
~ Gerald May
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.
~ Malcolm Turnbull
There is no religion higher than Truth.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
~ Waris Dirie
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
~ Maimonides
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
~ John F. Kennedy
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
~ Vernon Howard
It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.
~ Dziga Vertov
You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.
~ Elie Tahari
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
~ June Jordan