Uncompromising Honesty Quotes

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

...what I love about Ann Coulter is that she's sort of the-she's sort of a version of myself in that she absolutely never pulls a punch. Even when she's saying something that I think is outrageous, it's what she really believes and she doesn't back off of it. And that is what I find so refreshing and, unfortunately, so unique. I can't name five other people who do that, who don't calculate before they speak.

I try to keep what I say. And I - I'm not deviated from this position at all.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

I'm honest to a fault.

Integrity doesn't come in degrees: low, medium, or high. You either have integrity or you don't.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.

I shall pursue a straight forward course deviating neither to the right or left so that comes what may I hope my real friends will never have to blush for me, so far as truth, honesty & fair dealings are concerned.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

I am not cruel, only truthful.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.