Quotes About The Truth And Honesty

#1. [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#2. Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.

Jose Parla

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

Spencer Johnson

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

Frank Sonnenberg

#5. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#6. The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

R.D. Laing

#7. Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

Jess C. Scott

#8. He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#9. The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

L.M. Fields

#11. Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

John Galsworthy

#12. The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.

Criss Jami

#13. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#14. Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets.

Byrd Baggett

#15. A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

Elijah Wood

#16. 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

#17. Live in the present moment, you can't go back to yesterday, you can't leap into tomorrow, Today is your second, minute, hour! Embrace It!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#18. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...

Natalie Goldberg

#19. Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. They were as different as honesty and truth, but it takes experience to see the dissimilarities. Rocky was friendly, outgoing and boisterous; Charger was sullen, withdrawn and paranoid. Rocky liked people; Charger didn't. Rocky could trust; Charger didn't know the meaning of the word.

Joel M. McMains

#21. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge

#22. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#23. 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

#24. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#26. in order to see, we must first open our eyes.

Charles F. Glassman

#27. 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.

Criss Jami

#28. Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen

#29. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Samuel Butler

#30. 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

#31. It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

Anne Lamott

#33. You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

David Levithan

#34. Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.

Ina Catrinescu

#35. Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Samuel Johnson

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

William Faulkner

#38. I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Roberto Bolano

#39. 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

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

Agatha Christie

#41. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

James Dillet Freeman

#42. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Ashly Lorenzana

#43. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Criss Jami

#44. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

#45. An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's honesty had been rewarded with a gruesome decapitation. Aelyx hoped for better results.

Melissa Landers

#46. As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

Harper Lee

#47. My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

Edmund White

#48. Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.

Donna Lynn Hope

#52. I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

Abel Hermant

#53. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?

Aaron Blaylock

#54. The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

#55. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Criss Jami

#56. Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

Tan Redding

#57. Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.

Steve Maraboli

#58. The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#59. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.

Melody Carstairs

#60. All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Nigel Kneale

#61. To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty.

Debasish Mridha

#62. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).

Giacomo Casanova

#63. The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.

Steven Pressfield

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#65. What will you tell him?"
"The truth."
Fortismer thinks about that.
"Yes," he says at last. "Probably the best thing. Bloody deceptive, honesty.

Nick Harkaway

#66. People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Kinky Friedman

#67. To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#68. A mind is a terrible thing; waste it.

Brad Blanton

#69. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

August Sander

#70. Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Virginia Woolf

#72. In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#73. There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#74. 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

#75. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#76. Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

Michael J. Fox

#77. When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you've had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

Heidi Reagan

#78. Trust comes through honesty.

Dorien Kelly

#79. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere

Patrick Rothfuss

#80. To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#81. He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

Elizabeth Strout

#82. Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive.

Walter Scott

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

Marissa Meyer

#84. A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

Criss Jami

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

J. Richard Singleton

#86. Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Phillips Brooks

#87. A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.

Stefan Molyneux

#89. The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but in his deepest self. This kind of happiness was less a state, he realised, than a form of honesty: a sense of essential rightness.

Laura Barnett

#90. There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Arthur Dobrin

#91. I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

Theognis

#92. The truth hurts, only when it can heal.

Rob Liano

#93. Honest people never fear the truth.

Frank Sonnenberg

#94. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?

Edward W. Robertson

#95. Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

Shannon L. Alder

#96. Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

Norman Mailer

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

Amit Kalantri

#98. In simplicity there is truth.

River Phoenix

#99. No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#100. Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Robin Hobb