Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

Julian Assange

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Potter

And 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

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

Benjamin Cohen

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Alfred Russel Wallace

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

June Jordan

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

Ansel Adams

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Lactantius

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

W. Somerset Maugham

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Dean Inge

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!

Swami Sivananda

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

William Feather

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Cal Thomas

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

J. K. Rowling

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.