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Quotes About Honesty

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.
~ Billy Crudup
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
~ Julian Barnes
The truth is what hurts
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
~ Robertson Davies
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
~ Saint Augustine
Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
~ Oprah Winfrey
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth.
~ Khem Veasna
You must emulate the truth you exhort.
~ Johnny Hunt
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
Dedicate one's life to truth.
~ Juvenal
The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
~ Agnes Repplier
Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
~ Lily Tomlin
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
~ Jane Austen, Emma
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.
~ Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
~ David Gemmell, Dark Moon
Love has no value in the absence of truth.
~ C.J. Anderson
When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?
~ Martine Murray, The Wilful Eye
We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.
~ Samael Aun Weor
You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason