Quotes About Honesty

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated, our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.-

the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

Cinismul este singura form? prin care sufletele obiÅŸnuite acced la ceea ce se numeÅŸte onestitate; iar omul superior, aflându-se în prezenta cinismului, fie el mai grosolan sau mai rafinat, trebuie s?-ÅŸi ciuleasc? urechile ÅŸi s? se felicite de fiece dat? când chiar în faÅ£a lui prinde glas bufonul cel neruÅŸinat sau satirul ÅŸtiinÅ£ific.

The Good Person of today is incapable of approaching anything except in a dishonest way–but with innocence, a true blue-eyed virtuously mendacious way. These Good People are ruined: they cannot stand a single truth about Man.

One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape

Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.

love of truth is something fearsome and mighty.

I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they.

La cel ce vrea s? fie drept pân?-n adâncul sufletului chiar ÅŸi minciuna devine filantropie.

There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly.

Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be proved is worth little.

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

El cinismo es la única forma en que las almas vulgares rozan lo que es honestidad;

sesuai dengan diri kita, kita semua purapura lebih sederhana dari yang sebenarnya: inilah cara dimana kita dapat bersantai dari orang lain

Advocates of truth.?Truth is least likely to find advocates not when it is dangerous to speak the truth, but when it is boring to do so.