Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Benjamin Franklin

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Peace Pilgrim

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Newt Gingrich

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Leslie Fiedler

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Anthony Trollope

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Mohandas Gandhi

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Christian Nestell Bovee

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Henry David Thoreau

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Don Marquis

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Harry S. Truman

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

James A. Baldwin

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.