Quotes about Truth
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
— Billy Graham
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.
— Mark Driscoll
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
— James A. Garfield
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
— Confucius
Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.
— Michael Hyatt
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
— Dorothy Sayers
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
— Robert Frost
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
— George Washington
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
The best of all lost arts is honesty.
— Mark Twain