Thomas Huxley Quotes

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

We have to stand for the truth.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

I refuse to lie to children.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.