Speaking The Truth

Honesty is the best image. - Ziggy

When in doubt tell the truth. - Mark Twain

You can't handle the truth. - Jack Nicholson

In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through. - George Eliot

Never let the facts get in the way of the truth. - Farley Mowat

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. - Georges Braque

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. - Tolstoy

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. - Mel Brooks

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - John 8:32

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith. - Andy Williams

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. - George Macdonald

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday. - Zig Ziglar

If you are going to grow into a human being, you are going to need some values. - Ann Dunham

Humour is based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joe-k about a father-in-law? - Dick Clark

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain

A good story is at its best when the line between truth and fiction remains ambiguous. - Leicester Hemingway

You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. - Red Auerbach

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. - Josh Billings

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. - Harvey Mackay

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. - Sir Richard Steele

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. - Zig Ziglar

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. - Konrad Lorenz

Better to be on a seemingly endless journey seeking truth, than to be comfortable and stagnant with deception. - Starr De Luna

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him.
If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. - Groucho Marx

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. - Cal Thomas

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes. - Margaret Mahy

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. - Sheila Ballantyne

Too many young folk have an addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love. - Cornel West

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. - Joseph Addison

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. - James F. Cooper

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward. - Steve Maraboli

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. - Bertrand Russell