Quotes About Honesty

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Do you love the truth more than you need to be loved, or do you need to be loved more than you love the truth?

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.

Be prepared and be honest.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Face the truth or the truth will face you!

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.