Quotes About Honesty

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.

Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

Truth is mighty and will prevail

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.