27+ Quotes about Honesty and Truth Seeking
Quotes About Honesty and Truth Seeking |
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
Robert Brault
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
Victor Hugo
Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Spencer Johnson
When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
You can't lie to your soul.
Irvine Welsh, Porno
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen, Emma
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.
T.F. Hodge
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver
Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
Criss Jami