Quotes About Truth

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.