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My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them. — Amit Kalantri

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other. — Andre Gide

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses. — Albert Camus

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

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

Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies. — Israelmore Ayivor

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. — Leo Tolstoy

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. — Wally Lamb

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

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

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty. — Sunday Adelaja

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful. — Sylvia Boorstein

The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty. — Sunday Adelaja

The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask. — Criss Jami

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth. — Walter Besant

To be happy, pursue your purpose with love and honesty. — Debasish Mridha

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. — Criss Jami

Better by far to live in the truth and know it, however bad it may be, than hide yourself away behind ignorance and habit. — Owen Sheers

The reality is, if you're friends with somebody you should be able to be honest with them, and that honesty should be the biggest magnet to truth. — Justin Vernon

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story. — Max Ehrmann

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. — Stephen Covey

Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child. — Rachel M. Walls

Lies can't grow. Once plucked they can only wither. But every truth, once planted, grows into a tall, noble tree. — Stefan Emunds

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them. — A.W. Tozer

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Honesty does not mean saying all we think or feel. Many of our thoughts and feelings are only with us for a minute. They are not always the truth. — Anonymous

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I scrutinized his face for honesty and then looked away. He was either a lunatic, a really good liar, or he was actually telling the truth. — Amy Astorga

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you. — Criss Jami

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told. — Shannon L. Alder

We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment. — Joshua Gaylord

I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty. — Colum McCann

But choices are rarely black and white. Right or wrong. They are a million shades of gray. — Dwight Okita

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard

I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- — John Green

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

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr

The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation. — Sunday Adelaja

Small truths have greater power than big lies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web. — Jenna Alatari

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill. — Henry Wotton

Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation. — Sunday Adelaja

When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability. — Sunday Adelaja

Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception. — Nenia Campbell

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth. — Barry Eisler

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. — William Shakespeare

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything. — Randi Rhodes

I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they? — Jess C. Scott

A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream. — Melody Carstairs

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly. — Simone Weil

always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words. — Kiki Archer

Most people can't seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development. — Sunday Adelaja

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

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught. — Barbara Delinsky

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

Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I'm always going for truth and honesty. — Jill Soloway

Honesty is the best part of any art form. If you don't have that, you're kidding yourself and your listener. — Billy Joel

National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty — Sunday Adelaja

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty. — Sunday Adelaja

To be a child of the Third World is to be aware of the many different constituencies you have and how honesty and truth must always depend on context. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. — J.G. Ballard

He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up. — Casey Renee Kiser

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it. — Patrick Henry

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends — Alexis De Tocqueville

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. — David Halberstam

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future. — Shannon L. Alder

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust

When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians. — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. — Anthony Ashley Cooper

You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Between video games and texting, how do our youth find the time to know everything? — L.M. Fields

The secret of a happy life is to live a life with child-like simplicity, appreciate nature's beauty, and admire honesty. — Debasish Mridha

Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions. — Stefan Molyneux

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

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

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion. — Stefan Molyneux

There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth. — Sunday Adelaja

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun ... and you'll have no regrets. — Byrd Baggett

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others. — Lauryn Hill

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

When truth and honesty is successfully intertwined into the business world of a nation, the result is a boost in commerce. — Sunday Adelaja

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner

Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. — Eric Hoffer