“The
greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
- Abu
Bakr
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
- Plato
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“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
- Mark Twain
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“There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all
forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.”
- William Shakespeare
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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
- William Shakespeare
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“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
- Mark Twain
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“Honesty
is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
- Mark
Twain
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“The
secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got
it made.”
- Groucho
Marx
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“If you do not tell the truth about
yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
- Virginia Woolf |
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which
confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."
- Mary Kay Ash
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“To make
your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”
- John
Ruskin
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“All men
profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be
folly. To believe none so is something worse.
- John
Quincy Adams
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“The
greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.”
- Abu
Bakr
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“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie” - Sarah Dessen |
“Can you honestly love a dishonest
thing?”
- John Steinbeck |
“There's one way to find out if a man
is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
- Mark Twain |
“Integrity is telling myself the
truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
- Spencer Johnson |
“The high
road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.”
- Scott
Hamilton
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“Good
design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration
and from trusting your intuition.”
- Freeman
Thomas
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“Honesty
has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without
expecting redress.”
- Judith
Martin
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“Honesty
is as rare as a man without self-pity.”
- Stephen
Vincent Benet
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“Love and
honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.”
- Jada
Pinkett Smith
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“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
- Emily Brontë |
“The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's
the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
- C. Clarke
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“Honesty is a good thing,
but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.”
- Don Marquis
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“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his
fellow citizens.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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“A half truth is a whole lie.”
- Yiddish
Proverb
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“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the
honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”
- Josh Billings
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“Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.”
- Lemuel K. Washburn
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“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual
respect for one another.”
- Simone Elkeles |
“You can't lie to your soul.”
- Irvine Welsh |
“Honesty
is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept
under control.”
- Don
Marquis
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“A lie can travel half way
around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
- Mark Twain
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“Art,
whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
- Adrienne
Rich
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the
truth.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“Always tell the truth. If you can't always tell the truth, don't lie.”
- Anonymous
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“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
- Slovenian Proverb
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“Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive
truth and the honest lie.“
- Robert Brault
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“The true
measure of life is not length, but honesty.”
- John
Lyly
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