Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-176] of 176 Honesty quotesHonesty QuotesHonesty Previous 20 quotes I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.~ Harry S. Truman If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.~ Mark Twain Often, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth.~ Mark Twain I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)~ Mark Twain Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption -- no, for the Lie, as Virtue, as Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint, simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. ... If this finest of the fine art arts had everywhere received the attention, encouragement, and conscientious practice and development which this club has devoted to it, I should not need to utter this lament, or cry a single tear. I do not say this to flatter. I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.~ Mark Twain One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.~ Mark Twain An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van Doren Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.~ Lemuel K. Washburn No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.~ Daniel Webster Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.~ Oscar Wilde We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.~ Tad Williams We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.~ Tad Williams Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko A half truth is a whole lie.~ Yiddish Proverb Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.~ Lin Yutang Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print