Quotes About Honesty

Truth is within ourselves.

Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot)

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.