Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

Winston Churchill

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Mohandas Gandhi

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Santayana

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Martha Beck

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Friedrich Schiller

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.

Winston Churchill

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Paul Weyrich

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

Zig Ziglar

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer