Quotes about Honesty
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
— John Calvin
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
— Richard Sibbes
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
— William Faulkner
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
— John Adams
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
— Confucius
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.
— Mark Twain
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
— Oswald Chambers
Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
— Abraham Lincoln