Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 176 Honesty quotesHonesty QuotesHonesty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.~ O. Henry Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.~ George Herbert It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.~ A. A. Hodge Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.~ Homer Truth telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: every single one was a liar.~ J. Edgar Hoover The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.~ Frank McKinney Hubbard Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.~ Kin Hubbard The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise...~ Thomas Jefferson Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.~ Thomas Jefferson Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.~ Thomas Jefferson [F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.~ Thomas Jefferson We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.~ Thomas Jefferson It is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it's good dispositions.~ Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world´s believing him.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print