Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

John Locke

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Anais Nin

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Hugh Shelton

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Luther Burbank

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Kenneth Starr

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

Sibel Edmonds

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Allan Bloom

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Clarence Darrow

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Max Frisch

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Bryant H. McGill

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Thomas Malthus

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Albert Schweitzer

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Chanakya

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Kenneth L. Pike

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

William Osler

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard