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Quotes About Honesty

Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.
~ Thomas Browne
Person-to-person, most people are honest.
~ Andy Rooney
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
~ Laozi
I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.
~ Roscoe Bartlett
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.
~ T Bone Burnett
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.
~ Fuyumi Soryo
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.
~ Martha Beck
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.
~ Russell Baker
fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.
~ Virginia Woolf
I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R, by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.
~ Pusha T
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
~ Robert H. Schuller
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
~ Elizabeth Meriwether
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
~ Walter Scott
Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
~ F. L. Lucas
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin