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Quotes About Honesty

Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
~ Paloma Faith
Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.
~ George S. Clason
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.
~ Cornelia Funke
If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
~ Oprah Winfrey
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~ Samuel Butler
I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
~ Kylie Bax
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
~ Joyce Meyer
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
~ Ellis Peters
We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth
~ Ian McEwan, Atonement
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
~ Sidney Howard
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
~ Andy Andrews
The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
~ Nick Hornby
Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.
~ Horatius Bonar
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
~ Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.
~ Roy Spence
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
~ Steve Aylett
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?
~ Marie Corelli
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
~ Frederick Carl Frieseke