Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 4 | GloryQuotes

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Charles Dickens

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

William Butler Yeats

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Curt Weldon

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Mohandas Gandhi

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

David Herbert Lawrence

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Gerrit Smith

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.

Alan Dundes

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Mohandas Gandhi

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Desiderius Erasmus

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

Fred Thompson

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Richard Whately

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Georg Brandes

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Benjamin Disraeli

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Jean de la Bruyere

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Ramakrishna

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Frank Howard Clark

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.