Honesty Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Pat Buckley

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Ernest Renan

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Iris Murdoch

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Titus Livius

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Malcolm X

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Jules Renard

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Alan Cohen

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Marie Curie

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Richard Whately

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

George Bancroft

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

Hans Kung

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Franz Boas

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

H. G. Wells

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

Mike Pence

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Lord Chesterfield

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Roland Barthes

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

Jerome K. Jerome