Quotes about Honesty
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life.
— Anne Lamott
Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.
— Barack Obama
There can be no healing without truth.
— Desmond Tutu
Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
— Epictetus
Truth should never travel faster than love.
— Erwin McManus
The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
— George Eliot
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
— GK Chesterton
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
— Henry David Thoreau
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
— Henry Ward Beecher