Quotes on honesty
Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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Edgar J. Mohn Quotes
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
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Robert Brault Quotes
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
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Oliver Wendell Quotes
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
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James Cardinal Gibbons Quotes
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
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George Herbert Quotes
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
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Austin O'Malley Quotes
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
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Mark Twain Quotes
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
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E.V. Lucas Quotes
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
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Richard J. Needham Quotes
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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Tad Williams Quotes
It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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Josh Billings Quotes
Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
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Emily Dickinson Quotes
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Truth fears no questions.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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Charles Edward Montague Quotes
A half truth is a whole lie.
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Yiddish Proverb Quotes
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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William Blake Quotes
Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
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Mark van Doren Quotes
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
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R.D. Laing Quotes
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
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Thomas Paine Quotes
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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K. Jerome Quotes
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
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Eli Siegel Quotes