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Quotes About Honesty

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.
~ Colleen Hoover, Slammed
The truth is overrated.
~ Paul Westerberg
Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.
~ Anthony Marais, The Cure
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
~ Roberto Bolaño, Amulet
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
~ John Paul II
Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Powers
I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
~ Bill Moyers
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
~ George H. Smith
I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
~ Elaine Stritch
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
~ J. G. Holland
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
~ Barbara Boxer
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth never hurt the teller.
~ Robert Browning
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
~ Janelle Monae
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
~ Gary Hamel
If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
~ Janelle Monae
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
~ Emily Dickinson
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
~ Dan Mazer
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
~ William Kent Krueger