Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 176 Honesty quotesHonesty QuotesHonesty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.~ Quintus Ennius When somebody lies, somebody loses.~ Stephanie Ericsson We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.~ Abraham Flexner But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.~ Benjamin Franklin Your creditor has authority at his pleasure to deprive you of your liberty, by confining you in gaol for life, or to sell you for a servant, if you should not be able to pay him! When you have got your bargain, you may, perhaps, think little of payment; but creditors, Poor Richard tells us, have better memories than debtors, and in another place says, creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it. Or if you bear your debt in mind, the term which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extreamly short. Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as shoulders. ~ Benjamin Franklin Finally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seed thrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry.~ Benjamin Franklin Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.~ Sigmund Freud He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.~ Dr. Thomas Fuller Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.~ Don Galer To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Honest differences are a healthy sign of progress.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.~ Henry George Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.~ James Cardinal Gibbons Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt Lying can never save us from another lie.~ Vaclav Havel No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.~ Nathaniel Hawthorne Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print