Margaret Fuller Quotes

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

Honesty is the best policy.

Amongst all the accusations that have ever been made against me, no man ever before imputed to me a lack of candor or charged me with duplicity, and no man ever shall and escape my denunciation. When a man so accuses me, it matters not where I am or who he is, I will write "liar" across his forehead, so that in future years all men may know him and all honest men may shun him.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

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

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever. But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.