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Honesty Quotes About Trust

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Bob Graham

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Seamus Heaney

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Fernando Flores

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

David Ginola

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

Shania Twain

Honesty Quotes About Relationships

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Ang Lee

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

John Le Carre

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Billy Bragg

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Henry Rollins

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

Gil Gerard

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

Richard Gere

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Lauryn Hill

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Patricia Heaton

Short Honesty Quotes

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Mohandas Gandhi

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

William Shakespeare

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

More Honesty Quotes

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Mohandas Gandhi

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

Winston Churchill

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Thomas Jefferson

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mohandas Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mohandas Gandhi

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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

Albert Einstein

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Albert Einstein

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Jeanette Winterson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

George Washington

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

Michel de Montaigne

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

George Santayana

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