Top 1200 Truth Honesty Quotes & Sayings

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I believe the foundation of love is based on honesty and truth.

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

As for what I look for, I don't know any other way to put it, but I look for truth, and honesty, because that's something that's few and far between. And obviously, someone who takes care of herself physically. But truth, honesty, and love, that's what's most important. Oh, and someone who can vibe to some jazz. Because I love jazz music a lot.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

I think country music is about honesty. Any art has to have honesty to start with, as the core of it. I mean, they're just going to manipulate you in one way or the other, but there has to honesty at the core of it.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Inspirational Quotes on: Honesty, Simplicity, Secret, Universe, Modesty, Peace Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.

My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.

I guess if you try to write with honesty and emotional truth, then that will resonate no matter what the age of the viewer.

That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

In every role that I do - whether I'm a teacher, actor or mentor - I do it with total dedication and as much honesty as I feel is required because there's no alternative to honesty and hard work.

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.

To me, when you're crying, you're aligned with some sort of truth. Some inner truth. That's why you cry. You identify. It's just ultimate honesty.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

I'm always going for truth and honesty.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

The Bible is a wonderful book. It is the truth about the Truth. It is not the Truth. A sermon taken from the Bible can be a wonderful thing to hear. It is the truth about the truth about the truth. But it is not the truth. There have been many books written about the things contained in the Bible. I have written some myself. They can be quite wonderful to read. They are the truth about the truth about truth about the Truth. But they are NOT the Truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Truth. Sometimes the Truth can be drowned in a multitude of words.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

He doubted her. You must never doubt the one you love. But they might not be telling the truth. Never mind that. You tell them the truth. What do you mean? You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own. So what should I say? When? When I love someone? You should say it.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Truth may be unattainable, but honesty is not.

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

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.