Quotes About Honesty

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

There is a deep power in words that speak the truth

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

My body gets weak without truth.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.