Top 100 Honesty Lies Quotes
#1. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
David Whyte
#2. But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?
Diana Rose Morcilla
#3. In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor ... Being true is different than being honest.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#5. A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.
Criss Jami
#7. Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#8. To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#9. Don't ever be honest about who you are - and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.
Andrea Cremer
#10. Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.
Martha Beck
#12. Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.
Brad Blanton
#14. Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.
Siri Hustvedt
#15. Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.
Stefan Zweig
#16. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
Maya Angelou
#17. You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..
Javan
#18. always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.
Kiki Archer
#19. Such is the power of truth that even the slightest whisper of it can handily drown out the most boisterous of lies, which may explain why in many instances God only needs to whisper.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#20. Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
Marisha Pessl
#21. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.
J.G. Ballard
#22. With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends
Kathryn Stockett
#23. The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.
Criss Jami
#25. What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser
#26. Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
#27. Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.
Yvan Audouard
#28. You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life ... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies ... !!!
Abhijeet Sawant
#29. admires her honesty, which turns white lies into red roadkill.
M.R. Carey
#30. The wolf who wins is the wolf you feed. The evil wolf feeds on anger, guilt, sorrow, lies, and regret. The good wolf needs a diet of love and honesty, spiced up with big spoonfuls of compassion and faith. So if you want the good wolf to win, you're going to have to starve the other one.
Deborah Harkness
#32. Vulnerability brings honesty. We become most honest with ourselves when we are faced with real fear around a situation or an outcome. Yet many still stay in their comfort zone, listening to their own excuses and lies.
Tony Curl
#33. People only lie because they are afraid of the truth
Madison Reil
#34. Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said.
Criss Jami
#35. Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.
Jenna Alatari
#36. The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the truth is, no one can use lies to separate those people and turn them against one another.
Mel Odom
#37. Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.
Nicole Castle
#39. In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
#40. Lies are like garbage that you can't throw away. They clutter your life, foul your air, and make living unbearable.
Wes Fesler
#41. Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss Jami
#42. Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy
#43. Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So.
Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.
Donald L. Hicks
#44. Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
Ashly Lorenzana
#45. Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
Bisco Hatori
#46. A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
Ashraf Dehghani
#47. I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
Mark Wahlberg
#48. I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
Omega Maverick
#49. Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.
Criss Jami
#50. Always there is a bitch lies in every virgin heart, and a virgin always lies in the heart of a bitch. To be honest, there cannot ever be anyone who is one-man or one-woman human, in action or may be in thought!
Argha
#51. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies
Fred Munoz
#52. You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.
Rebecca Scherm
#53. Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.
Wes Fesler
#54. I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.
Robert Walser
#55. It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.
Amit Kalantri
#58. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?
Edward W. Robertson
#59. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.
Marissa Meyer
#60. Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.
Walter Scott
#61. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#62. I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
Charles De Lint
#63. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
#65. Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley
#66. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.
Andrew Klavan
#68. Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?
George Orwell
#69. You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.
David Levithan
#72. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
Richard J. Needham
#73. The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.
-Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn
#74. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
#75. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#76. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
Criss Jami
#77. A liar only uses the truth when they want their lies to sound truthful.
Al David
#78. Force persuades a person to speak, but it cannot guarantee his honesty. Quite the reverse: it will extract confessions from innocents and lies from simple sinners ...
Meredith Duran
#79. Truth is like a bright full moon in a dark country sky. Powerful, bright and undeniable. Lies are like clouds that continually try to cover that moon. Sometimes they might be able to cover the moon, but only temporarily. The truth will always outshine the clouds.
Alex Haditaghi
#80. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#81. The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
George Eliot
#82. In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.
Megan Chance
#83. Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#84. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Francis Bacon
#87. He's hidden behind lies and half-truths his entire life, so anytime he's faced with brutal honesty, he runs. It's just his nature.
Brandi Glanville
#88. I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear.
Charles F. Glassman
#90. If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. In time, lies bring turmoil, where honesty brings peace.
Wes Fesler
#92. Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree.
Stefan Emunds
#93. Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
A.W. Tozer
#94. I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
Maya Angelou
#95. Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.
Joyce Rachelle
#96. Don't spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
T.F. Hodge
#97. I am. I'm rude because I don't conform to society's standards that white lies are inconsequential. I don't believe in hiding behind words that aren't truthful. I'm an impatient man. I don't beat around the bush. If you ask me something, I won't lie to you.
Whitney Barbetti
#98. The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail Caldwell
#99. See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#100. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
Criss Jami
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