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Quotes About Honesty

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.
~ Sonya Sones
It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.
~ Cassandra Clare
It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.
~ Charles Kimball
To add to truth distracts from it.
~ Alex Toth
I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.
~ Alexander Herzen
A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
~ Alexander Pope
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
~ Alison Bechdel
Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
~ Ameen Rihani
The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.
~ Amy Schumer
While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.
~ Amy Tan
If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
~ Anais Nin
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
~ Andre Malraux
I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.
~ Ann Coulter
Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.
~ Anna Quindlen
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
~ Anne Lamott
Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
~ Anne Rice
Humility is the daughter of truth.
~ Anne Truitt
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
~ Annie Leonard
Truth without compassion is Cruelty.
~ Antero Alli