Honesty Quotes

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. 
- Author Unknown –

Truth fears no questions. 
- Author Unknown –

Honest people are easily deceived.
- Author Unknown -

Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- Author Unknown -

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.
- Author Unknown -

And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
- Ben E. King -

There is indeed a inherently honesty to it.
- Ben Edwards -

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
- Benjamin Disraeli –

Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin -

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. 
- Bertrand Russell -

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.
- Bertrand Russell -

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
- Betty Dodson -

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. 
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg -

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw -

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- George Burns -

Dare to be true:  nothing can need a lie:  A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 
- George Herbert -

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
- Gerrit Smith –

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
- Graeme Murphy -

Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough.
- Greta Garbo -

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
- Harvey S. Firestone -

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.
- Henry Cabot Lodge -

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. 
- Henry Louis Mencken -

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
- Hugh Prather -

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited. 
- James Cardinal Gibbons -

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 
- Mark Twain -

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain -

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste. 
- Mark Van Doren -

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
- Martin Sheen -

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
- Mary Kay Ash -

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
- Meyer Lansky -

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
- Michael Moriarty -

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. 
- Michel de Montaigne -

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms.  For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain.  But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field. 
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.
- Mikhail Bakunin -

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
- Shia LaBeouf -

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
- Shirley MacLaine -

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.  
- Slovenian Proverb -

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.
- Star Jones -

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. 
- Tad Williams -

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
- Talib Kweli -

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself. 
- Terri Guillemets –

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. 
- Thomas Carlyle -

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
- Thomas Kretschmann -

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson -

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.  When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. 
- Thomas Paine -

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