Quotes on Honesty

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Mark Twain  

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

Steve Landesberg

Honest people are easily deceived.
Anonymous

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

 
No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare
 

Honesty is the cruelest game of all,
because not only can you hurt someone – and hurt them to the bone

- you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Dave Van Ronk

 
He who is passionate and hasty, is generally honest;

it is your cool dissembling hypocrite, of whom you should beware.

Proverb
 

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

George Bernard Shaw

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Cicero

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Edgar J. Mohn

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>