Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Annie Leibovitz

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Chuck Palahniuk

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Jock Sturges

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Roland Joffe

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

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

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Robert H. Schuller

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Charles Lamb

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Armistead Maupin

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

George Washington

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand de Saussure

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Ramakrishna

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Will Durant

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Charles Schumer

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mohandas Gandhi

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

Vinoba Bhave

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

Jock Sturges