Quotes about Honesty
Faith lives in honest doubt.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
- Barack Obama
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business
- Mahatma Gandhi
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X
Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
- John Milton
For who knows not that Truth is strong..; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licencings to make her victorious.
- John Milton
Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write
- John Milton
C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
- John Ortberg
The only time I ever find my dealings with God less than clear-cut is when I'm not being honest with Him. The fuzziness is always on my side, not His.
- Catherine Marshall
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
- Catherine Marshall
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- GK Chesterton
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
- GK Chesterton