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Quotes About Honesty

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
~ Joe Scarborough
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
~ Mark Twain
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
~ Georgette Heyer
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
~ Chuck Close
If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.
~ Conor Oberst
When in doubt, tell yourself the truth.
~ Seth Godin
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
~ Stephen Covey
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
~ George Herbert
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
~ John Hodgman
My commitment is to truth not consistency.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.
~ Paula Fox
Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.
~ Amy Dickinson
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice
~ Anne Heche
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
~ Natalie Goldberg
One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.
~ Judith Barrington
The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.
~ Amy Dickinson
I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
~ Terry Gross
The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.
~ Willa Gibbs