Quotes on Honest Truth

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.