Quotes on Honest Truth

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.