Quotes About Honesty

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.

I shall never believe that what is founded on lies can endure for ever. I believe in truth. I'm sure that, in the long run, truth must be victorious.

and in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

Il nostro movimento avrà questo compito: darà al singolo ciò di cui ha bisogno per vivere. Ciò troverà la sua espressione in una graduazione dei meriti tale da garantire, anche all'ultimo onesto lavoratore, una normale esistenza

It's certainly better to be a little old-fashioned but honest and loyal, than to be over-sophisticated and modern, with inferior character, and thus typically ignorant and inefficient.

What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..

in certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

In our family, being right trumped being truthful. There was no room for uncertainty, so you never let down your guard.

A buried truth, that's all a lie really is.

We all know the adage that one lie begets the next. Deception takes commitment, vigilance, and a very good memory. To keep the truth buried, you must tend to it.

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler — for the liar — than it really is, or ought to be. In lying to others we end up lying to ourselves. We deny the importance of an event, or a person, and thus deprive ourselves of a part of our lives. Or we use one piece of the past or present to screen out another. Thus we lose faith even within our own lives.

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.