Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 176 Honesty quotesHonesty QuotesHonesty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.~ Groucho Marx The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.~ Groucho Marx It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.~ H. L. Mencken Debate, it seems to me, is one of the most useful of human inventions. It is the mother and father of all free inquiry and honest thought. It tests ideas, detects errors and promotes clear thinking. A man cannot stand up before it without exposing his whole intellectual stock of goods.~ H. L. Mencken If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.~ Molière A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.~ Charles Edward Montague A man always has two reasons for what he does -- a good one, and the real one.~ J. P. Morgan People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.~ Richard J. Needham Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.~ Richard M. Nixon The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.~ Lyn Nofziger Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.~ Austin O'Malley Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.~ George Orwell Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.~ George Orwell It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.~ Ovid It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.~ Thomas Paine Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.~ Thomas Paine The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.~ Cesare Pavese History has taught us time and again that political power always raises its angry fist when timeless principles are lost. We know that without the scale of "self-evident truths" grounded in the "laws of nature and nature's God," every culture eventually finds itself subject to the rule of the gang or the tyranny of the individual. Recognizing this, scholars of all ages have confidently given their hearts and minds to the words, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.~ Everett Piper Honesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.~ Everett Piper The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print