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Quotes About Honesty

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
~ Brad Blanton
My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
~ Christiane Amanpour
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
~ Auberon Waugh
Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.
~ Ronald Knox
It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.
~ Randi Rhodes
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
~ Phyllis Bottome
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.
~ Grace Napolitano
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Silence is the mother of truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
~ Gautama Buddha
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
~ S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
~ Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
The truth will make you odd.
~ Judy Blume
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~ Frank Herbert
By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
~ Gautama Buddha
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
~ Gay Hendricks
Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.
~ Jerry Hall
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.
~ R. D. Laing