Quotes About Honesty

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

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

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.

Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

Integrity to yourself, honesty to others..trust yourself to be trusted ...simple..(Ejump, 2017)

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that's damned me more than once. But I just can't hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

The truth ain't pretty. That's how you can identify it.