Honesty Quotes

Most popular honesty quotes

When in doubt, tell the truth.
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
Honesty is the best policy.
What is more arrogant than honesty?
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
It takes two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.


All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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Don't call a man honest just because he never had the chance to steal.
— Yiddish saying


He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

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There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.


"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.
In short, honesty is more than a moral principle. It is also a major economic factor.
Honesty is the best policy, but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.


The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
Remember Louis Vincenti's rule: 'Tell the truth, and you won't have to remember your lies.'
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday.
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.


When people speak with brutal honesty, what is most remembered is the brutality, not the honesty.


Deceiving someone for his own good is a responsibility that should be shouldered only by the gods.
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
— Yugoslavian proverb

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It is useless to try to hold some people to anything they say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office.

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