Quotes About Truth

Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

No truth could ever fear me.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Hold firmly to your word.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.