Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Frank Luntz

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Demosthenes

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Charles Olson

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Tufte

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Noel Coward

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Hu Shih

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Berkeley

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

John Charles Polanyi

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William Tecumseh Sherman

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

William Ellery Channing

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

Gerrit Smith

What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.

Elias Hicks

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

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government.

Roy Barnes

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Burt Bacharach

What is important is that you're honest with the American people.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

George Henry Lewes

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Tacitus

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.

Dudley North

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

Dana Rohrabacher

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love.

Emanuel Swedenborg

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Wendell Phillips

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

David McCullough

The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

Randy Neugebauer

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Clarence Darrow

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Ben Bradlee

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Paul D. Boyer

All truth is not to be told at all times.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

F. H. Bradley

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Walter Lippmann