Quotes About Honesty

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

The first step toward telling the truth is to tell the whole lie.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

If it comes from Tom Hauser, it's the truth.

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Truth never perishes.