Truth Honesty Quotes:

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

- Jim Morrison

topic: Sex, Truth, Lying, Pretension, Cripples

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Funny Inspirational, Honesty, Way In Life, Trustworthiness

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Being Yourself, Witty, Discovering Yourself, Just Being You

This above all; to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation, True To Myself, Horatio

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Truth, Writing Advice, Truth And Honesty

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Lying, Finding Out The Truth, Telling Lies

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

topic: Wise, Witty, Powerful, Ignorance Is Bliss, Lies Truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Truth, Spiritual Truth, Being Accepted

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

- John Ruskin

topic: Trust, Children, Truth, Truth Honesty, Honest And Integrity

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

- Dennis Prager

source: FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 07, 2014

topic: Honesty, Kindness, Integrity, Kindness Generosity, Columnists

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

- Mark Twain

topic: Memories, Needs, Good Memories, Way In Life, Being Truthful

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

- Mark Twain

topic: Truth, Way, Politics, My Attitude, Lies In Love

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Knowing The Truth, Lies And Liars

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Truth, Two, Truth Is, Compact, Truth And Honesty

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.

- Charles Edward Montague

topic: Lying, Taken, Left Out, Lies Truth, Being Lied

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Honesty, Making Good Choices, Lost Myself

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Truth, Memories, Long, Way In Life, Inspirational Change

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

- Sigmund Freud

topic: Inspiring, Education, Teacher, Interpretation Of Dreams, Psychoanalysis

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

- George Washington

topic: Trust, Hope, Truth, Firmness, Inspirational Character

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Trust, Truth, Making Good Choices, Untrustworthy

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

- James E. Faust

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Lying, Telling Lies, Truth And Honesty

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Nature, Integrity, Inspirational Friendship, Honest Work

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Life, Truth, Not Worthy, Saying The Truth

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

- Confucius

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Truth, Three Things, Inspirational Buddhist

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: Nomination acceptance speech, Miami, 8 Aug. 1968, in New York Times 9 Aug. 1968, p. 20

topic: Truth, Lying, Honor, Truth And Honesty, Telling It Like It Is

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

- Michelle Obama

source: Speeach at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Squares, Truth And Honesty, Truth Honesty

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Truth, Inspiration, Prevailing, Nothing But The Truth, Truth Prevails

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Integrity, Good Character, Horatio

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

- Tad Williams

topic: Honesty, Fear, Lying, Fear Of The Unknown, Lies Truth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Children, Truth, Truth And Honesty, Truth Honesty

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Truth, Literature, Valuable, Valuable Things, Dishonesty And Lying

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

- Croft M. Pentz

topic: Honesty, Lying, Care, Lies Truth, Dishonesty And Lying

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

- Edward R. Murrow

source: Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Being Truthful, Power Of Persuasion

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

topic: Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Being Straightforward, Trust And Honesty

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

- Josh Billings

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Freedom, Ultimate Truth, Truth And Lies

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

- George Burns

topic: Funny, Fake People, Truth, Secret Life, Just Live Your Life

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

- Robert Burns

source: Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

topic: Honesty, Ethics, Being Honest, Honest Work, Truth Honesty

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

- Josh Billings

topic: Wisdom, Truth, Honesty, Complete Honesty, Telling Lies

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Truth, Business, Spiritual Truth, Ultimate Truth

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Truth, Gravitation, Lies Truth

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Beautiful, Truth, Honesty, Spiritual Truth, Lies And Liars

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Education, Honesty, Integrity, Antithesis, Knowledge Is Dangerous

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: 1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

topic: Depression, Being Yourself, Men, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

- George Herbert

source: Jeremy Taylor, John Wheeldon, George Herbert (1768). “Sacred Prolusions: Or, Select Pieces from Bishop Taylor and Mr. Herbert. By the Rev. John Wheeldon, ... With a Preface and a Discourse on Rev.xviii. 21. By the Editor”, p.98

topic: Truth, Honesty, Lying, Lies Truth, Nothing But The Truth

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Leadership, Money, Integrity, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspirational Service

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

topic: Stoops, Truth Honesty

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

topic: Truth, Honesty, Chance, Not Honest, Truth Honesty

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Inspirational, Truth, Honesty, Truth And Honesty, Truth Honesty

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.557, Best Books on

topic: Peace, Truth, Integrity, Dishonesty And Lying, Truth And Honesty

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

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

topic: Honesty, Memories, Lying, Dishonesty And Lying, Good Liar