The repository contains 28 quotes in the category “Honesty.”
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When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
Repetition does not transform a lie into truth.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882 — 1945
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Infidelity does not consist in believing or disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
Thomas Paine
1737 — 1809
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire
1694 — 1778
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Dan Rather
1931 —
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle
384 — 322 B.C.
No one deserves praise for being honest when no one tries to corrupt.
Cicero
106 A.D. — 43
Honesty is a fine jewel but much out of fashion.
Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734
No honest man ever repented of his honesty.
Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
Paul Gallico
1897 — 1976
Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.
Dr. Johnson
1709 — 1784
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”
André Maurois
1885 — 1967
The lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
The nearest to perfection that most people ever come is when filling out a job application.
Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don’t.
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