Speaking The Truth

When in doubt tell the truth. - Mark Twain

A lot of truth is said in jest. - Eminem

Integrity never goes out of style. - Jim George

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies. - Suzette Haden Elgin

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. - George Saunders

There's more to the truth than just the facts. - Unknown

People only lie because they are afraid of the truth. - Madison Reil

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory. - Jesse Ventura

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe. - Alice Childress

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. - Mark Twain

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. - Charles William Eliot

Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people. - Warren Buffett

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to being it to light. - George Washington

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them. - Nicole Guillaume

A lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. - Patrick Murray

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. - Henri F Amiel

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their profession. - Unknown

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

Integrity is not something you show others. It is how you behave behind their back. - Unknown

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. - Henry David Thoreau

An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half. - Shailer Mathews

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times. - John Gerzema

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. - Grover Cleveland

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it. - Samuel Pepys

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. - Stephen Covey

There's something about a woman with a loud mind that sits in silence, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth. - R G Moon

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

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. - Rodney Dangerfield

God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message. - Ravi Zacharias

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, and to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. - Janos Arany