Quotes About Honesty

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

I report the truth of what is happening here in Baghdad and will not apologize for it.

Shift the dynamic as much as you can, so you hear the truth from people that have lived experience. Listen intently and honor their experience.

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else.

Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God's Word.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth." -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.