Honesty Quotes

2237 Honesty quotes by 1349 unique authors

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they… — Ayn Rand
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses. — Albert Camus
If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves. — David Frum
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,… — George Orwell
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so… — Vera Brittain
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves;… — George Bernard Shaw
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared… — Thomas Paine
One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with… — Richard Hofstadter
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences,… — Mahatma Gandhi
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those… — Michel de Montaigne
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. — Thomas Jefferson
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,… — C.S. Lewis
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean,… — Orison Swett Marden
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great. — Confucius
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves. — John McCain
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. — Mother Teresa
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting… — Arthur Helps
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. — Thomas Otway
When we are not honest, we are cut off from a significant resource of ourselves, a vital dimension that is necessary for unity and wholeness. — Clark Moustakas
When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to… — Ken Keyes Jr.
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. — Edgar Cayce
There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child. — Dalai Lama

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