Quotes About Honesty

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Everything was believed except the truth.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.

They'd rather hate you for the truth than love you for the lies.

Principle is a passion for truth.

The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

Truth is everlasting.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.