Quotes About Honesty

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The body never lies.

Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise."

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.