Quotes About Honesty

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood.

We should never use the truth to wound.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

The language of truth is simple.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.