Quotes About Honesty

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

Men are liars. We lie about lying if we have to.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.

When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.

Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

Money will not purchase character or good government.