Quotes and Proverbs About Truth and Honesty

Always speak the truth.
George Washington

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity,
goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
Charles William Eliot

He buries gold who hides the truth.
Pythagoras

The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
Ammian

When money speaks, truth keeps silent.
Russian Proverb

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oil and truth will get uppermost at last.
Proverb

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
John Milton

Follow your honest convictions, and be strong.
William M. Thackery

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Chaucer

Honesty first; then courage; then brains—and all are indispensable.
Theodore Roosevelt

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
Tacitus

Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
William Cowper

To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakepeare

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Sir Richard Steele

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and unquestionable truth.
Joseph Joubert

Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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