Quotes about Honesty
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
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
— Cicero
Veracity is the heart of morality.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There can be no mercy without truth.
— Adrian Rogers
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
— George Eliot
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
— Henry Ward Beecher
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.
— Charles Spurgeon