Quotes About Honesty

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

Always speak the truth.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

?Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.