Quotes About Truth

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Do the right thing because it is right.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Honesty is all you need.

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.