Quotes about Honesty
The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
— George Bernard Shaw
Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.
— Marianne Williamson
Always speak the truth.
— George Washington
When the truth emerges, then we reconcile ourselves to truth and unity and in charity or in love.
— Alveda King
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
— St. Jerome
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
— Adrian Rogers
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
— George Washington
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
— Albert Camus
If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
— John Calvin
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
— Karl Barth