No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

My grandpa was a preacher.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

I do not pilfer victory.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Facts are stubborn things.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

Truth is a pathless land.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.