Quotes About Honesty

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it

A trustworthy person does not betray you, but you consider the betrayer to be trustworthy.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of him, is a great injustice to him. On the contrary in a corrupt society to form good opinion of anyone of them and to trust him is to harm yourself.

The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.

A wise man's bosom is the safe of his secrets.

I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to any more. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful. I

Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.

It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can't express would maybe just flow out.

Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.

I cannot tell a lie. It was me who chopped down the cherry tree. Now that I've been so honest, make me a precedent. No, not president. I said precedent.

Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?

Shes direct enough

That's sin, [...] leavin' on a lie.

People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

the damage done to us during our childhood cannot be undone, since we cannot change anything in our past. we can repair ourselves and gain our lost integrity by choosing to look more honestly at the knowledge that is stored inside our bodies and bringing that knowledge closer to our awareness.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way

Those who betray others, lie and deceive, deserve each other.