Honesty Quotes

2237 Honesty quotes by 1349 unique authors

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened… — Charles Dickens
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will… — Charles Dickens
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. — Denis Diderot
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass
To live outside the law, you must be honest. — Bob Dylan
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. — Will Durant
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas A. Edison
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. — Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. — Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. — Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am. — Eminem
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke. — William Feather
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney. — Paloma Faith
Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each… — Paul Feig
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. — Harvey S. Firestone
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty… — Gerald R. Ford
The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded. — Scott Hamilton
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great. — Tom Hanks
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a… — Vaclav Havel
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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