Quotes About Honesty

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I'll commend them for truth in advertising.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Talent is truth on display.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

If we can get to the truth, we can change anything.

I really respect anybody who stands by their truth.

When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.

That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.