Quotes About Truth

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.