Quotes on Truth Honesty

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

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

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

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

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.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

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

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

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

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.

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.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.