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Quotes About Sincerity

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.
~ Shirley MacLaine
People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.
~ Ron White
Someone who is elated with wine speaks the truth on all subjects, even without meaning to. In the same way, anyone who is inebriated with the spirit of penitence will never be able to tell lies.
~ John Climacus
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
~ Ian Mckellen
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
~ William Shakespeare
Where there is no truth there is no grace.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
~ Khalil Gibran
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
~ James Sharp
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
~ George Herbert
Always speak the truth.
~ George Washington
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.
~ Multatuli
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
?Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.
~ John Avery
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
~ Aristotle
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
~ Jean Rostand
The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.
~ Mooji