Quotes About Honesty

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

The truth will only be told over a career.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran.

That's the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.