Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 176 Honesty quotesHonesty QuotesHonesty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When I use a word...it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less....The question is...which is to be master -- that's all.~ Lewis Carroll If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.~ Jimmy Carter Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.~ Helena Cassadine Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.~ Chilon of Sparta If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.~ Confucius It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noel Coward The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.~ Clarence S. Darrow This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error; that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas, the sounder ideas will in the long run win out.~ Elmer Davis Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.~ Charles De Gaulle Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?~ Alexis de Tocqueville It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.~ Dick Cavett I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don´t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if anything is to be got by it.~ Charles Dickens The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.~ Frederick Douglass The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick Douglass Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.~ John Dryden Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.~ Will Durant Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.~ Albert Einstein Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print