Honesty

15 quotes.

• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

  H. L. Mencken

• Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.

  Anonymous

• Honesty is the best image.

  Ziggy (Tom Wilson)

• Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

  Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

• How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug.

  Sterne

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is beter to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  H. L. Mencken

• Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen R. Covey

• No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

  William Jennings Bryan

• The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Groucho Marx

• Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

  Mark Twain

• When in doubt, tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

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