Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Joseph Joubert

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Elihu Root

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

George Byron

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John Le Carre

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Robert Collier

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence J. Peter

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Jeanette Winterson

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

John Milton

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Henry David Thoreau

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Horace Mann

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Ramakrishna

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

Henry Reed

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

David Herbert Lawrence

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Anish Kapoor

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

Timothy Radcliffe

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna Tartt

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Mohandas Gandhi

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Jay Inslee

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

Paul Weyrich