Quotes about Honesty
The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world, she eventually told Irina. They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion.
— Isabel Allende
I have zero ego.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.
— Samuel Johnson
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
— Anonymous
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
— Samuel Johnson
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
— Abraham Lincoln
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
— Louie Giglio
The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi