Quotes About Honesty

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren't going well, tell them.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little 't' – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big 'T'.

There can be no healing without truth.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

When all else fails, tell the truth.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

Speaking your truth with love ensures that others will hear your message, since angry words can shut down communication.

...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.