Quotes about Honesty
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
— Aristotle
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
— John Adams
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
— Abraham Lincoln
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
— AW Tozer
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
— Albert Camus
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
— Elbert Hubbard
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
— Euripides
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
— Francois Rabelais
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.
— GK Chesterton