Quotes About Honesty

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Where there is no truth there is no grace.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.