Quotes about Honesty
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
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
- Carl Sagan
Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Image if every church became a place where we told one another the truth. We might just create sanctuary.
- Rachel Held Evans
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
- Dante Alighieri