Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

George Bernard Shaw

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

Elizabeth Hurley

A very honest woman but something given to lie

William Shakespeare

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Lee Iacocca

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.

Philip Crosby

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

Samuel Butler

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.

Orson Scott Card

Typing up a detailed news post at this moment would not further the goals of my great society. Stay tuned for ideological update.

Brian Clevinger

Absolute honesty is essential in one\'s search for God (Truth). The subtleties of the Path are finer than a hair. The least hypocrisy becomes a wave that washes one off the Path. It is your false self that keeps you away from your true Self by every trick it knows. In the guise of honesty this self even deceives itself. For instance your self claims, I love Baba. The fact is, if you really loved Baba you would not be your false self making the self-asserting statement!

Meher Baba