Honesty Quotes

2237 Honesty quotes by 1349 unique authors

Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty. — Lady Gaga
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation. — Jim Rohn
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Corruption wins not more than honesty. — William Shakespeare
The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara. — Fran Lebowitz
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all… — Oscar Wilde
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. — William Hazlitt
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… — William Hazlitt
What is dignity without honesty? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie. — Robert Breault
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence. — Robert Breault
Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me. — Antonio Porchia
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
Person-to-person, most people are honest. — Andy Rooney
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated… — Sam Shoemaker
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity… — Edgar Allan Poe
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze. — Juvenal
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine. — Euripides
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland

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