Quotes about Honesty
Honesty also impels us to admit that the church has not been true to its social mission on the question of racial justice. In this area it has failed Christ miserably. This failure is due not only to the fact that the church has been appallingly silent and disastrously indifferent to the realm of race relations but even more to the fact that it has often been an active participant in shaping and crystallizing the patterns of the race-caste system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be sure that the means you employ are as pure as the end you seek.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
No good can ever come of falsehood
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.
— Arthur Schopenhauer