Honesty Telling The Truth Quotes

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

James E. Faust

#2. 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.

Ally Condie

#3. Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Spencer Johnson

#4. Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Barbara Delinsky

#5. You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..

Javan

#6. Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know ...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying

Merrit Malloy

#7. Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

#9. People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

David Reeves

#10. When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.

Barbara Delinsky

#11. Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Patrick Sky

#13. Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

Socrates

#15. Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

Jenna Alatari

#16. I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.

Colin Quinn

#17. A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of.

Henry Johnson Jr

#18. If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#19. The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Rachel Maddow

#20. 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

#21. Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love.

Bell Hooks

#22. And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner

#23. 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

#24. When you find that people are not telling you the truth
look out!

Agatha Christie

#25. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

Marissa Meyer

#26. The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

J. Richard Singleton

#27. If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

Amit Kalantri

#28. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#29. To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Jethro Tull

#30. I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

Tom Clancy

#31. Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Ken Blanchard

#32. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ... would do this, it would change the earth.

William Faulkner

#33. I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth.

Amy Astorga

#34. 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

#35. In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.

Czeslaw Milosz

#36. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn