Quotes About Honesty

I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.