Truth And Honesty Quotes - Page 4

• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Chance

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]

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• Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

  Andre Gide

  Truth, Believe, Profound

  "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

  Robert Burns

  Honesty, Ethics, Being Honest

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Robert Hartley Cromek (1839). “The prose works of Robert Burns: with the notes of Currie and Cromek, and many by the present editor”, p.57

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Truth, Honesty, Risk

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• Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Success, Fake People, Truth

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

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• A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, Travel, Truth

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• It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Honesty, Easier, Ends

  Charles Lindbergh (1913). “Banking and Currency and the Money Trust”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Honesty, Gun

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1455, e-artnow

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• Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Gambling, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Honesty, Character, Thank God

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

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• Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Honesty, Grateful

  Phillips Brooks, Thomas F. Chilcote (1954). “The Excellence of Our Calling: An Abridgment of Phillips Brooks' Lectures on Preaching, by Thomas F. Chilcote, Jr”

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• Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Politics

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Honesty, My Truth

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.448

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