Quotes About Honesty

Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

La vergüenza humana surge exclusivamente de la amenaza del descubrimiento.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

kata-kata tanpa ketulusan bukan hanya buruk, tapi juga merusak jiwa

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

For the extreme of injustice is to seem to be just when one is not.

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak.

He's garbage, he cares about nothing but the truth.

if the just man is good at keeping money, he is good at stealing it.

He who is a useful keeper of anything is also a better thief.

I am one of those who are very willing to be refuted if I say anything which is not true, and very willing to refute anyone else who says what is not true, and quite as ready to be refuted as to refute; for I hold that this is the greater gain of the two, just as the gain is greater of being cured of a very great evil than of curing another.

I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

Never mind the manner, which may or may not be good; but think only of the truth of my words, and give heed to that: let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. (Socrates)