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“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”

“You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!”

“No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

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

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

“I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but when you think that honesty and truth is really your best weapon you embrace it and put it behind you. In the end, it drives you and motivates you to do good work. No one should be ashamed about where they come from as long as you desire to be a compassionate and decent person.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.”

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

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

“Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”