Quotes about Honesty

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Truth by definition excludes.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth