Honesty Sayings & Quotes
These honesty sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. - Jessamyn West
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favour of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. - Henry Louis Mencken
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. - Ernest Hemingway
There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. - William Shakespeare
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical. - Margaret Fuller
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. - John Ruskin
Honesty is the best policy. - Miguel De Cervantes
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in 'cargo cult science'. It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty -a kind of leaning over backwards. For example, if you're doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid -not only what you think is right about it. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. - Richard Feynman
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. - Lois McMaster Bujold
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. - Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, endeavour, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland. - Adolph Hitler
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honour, I lose myself. - William Shakespeare
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights. - Thomas Jefferson
Where is there dignity unless there is also honesty? - Marcus Tullius Cicero
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. - Horace Mann
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. - Nelson Mandela
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. - Thomas Jefferson
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. - Bertrand Russell
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. - Sir Noel Coward
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali
The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. [Born For Love] - Leo F. Buscaglia