Speaking The Truth

Always speak the truth. - George Washington

Too much truth is uncouth. - Franklin P. Adams

Party honesty is party expediency. - Grover Cleveland

Country music is three chords and the truth. - Harlan Howard

Ya wanna known the truth? I voted for Reegan. - Archie Bunker

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

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

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. - Albert Camus

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay as long as truth. - Will Rogers

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - Mark Twain

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

Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? - Sydney Madwed

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. - Confucius

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. - Henry St. John

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

Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality. - Ravi Zacharias

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

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. - Sharon Begley

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

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. - Michelene Wandor

Women have a hard enough time in this world; telling them the truth would be too cruel. - H L Mencken

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. - Angela Thirkell

There's an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. - Irving Berlin

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. - Madeleine L'Engle

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot. - Yugoslav Proverb

Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it's worth it. - Donald Trump

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you're an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai Stevenson

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright. - Blaise Pascal

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone De Beauvoir

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake. - Rhonda Byrn

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. - George Carlin

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

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

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will. - Joseph Joubert