Quotes About Honesty

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

It feels so good to tell the truth.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth?

Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.