Honesty Quotes

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

Be true to thine own self.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Go wherever the facts lead.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

I once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.