Honesty Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Nothing is too wonderful to be true. – Michael Faraday

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

There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. – Bill Copeland

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Kahlil Gibran

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. – W. Clement Stone

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. – Robert Brault

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. – Richard J. Needham

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

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

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. – William Congreve

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting. – Buddha

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. – Lemuel K. Washburn

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. – Austin O’Malley

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent. – Mahatma Gandhi

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle

Always tell the truth. If you can’t always tell the truth, don’t lie. – Author Unknown

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God. – Source Unknown

No such thing as a man willing to be honest –that would be like a blind man willing to see. – F. Scott Fitzgerald


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