Quotes About Honesty

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.

You can't handle the truth!

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

People are always afraid of the truth.

Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

The amount of truth a relationship can handle is proportional to the amount of perceived love that's present.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

To understand the truth is to do the truth.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.