Honesty is virtue, but when it kills the innocent, it’s just as lethal a vice as murder itself.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. – Mark Twain
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. – Aristotle
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson
A benefit of speaking the truth, you don’t have to remember what you say.
Telling 90% of the truth with the intent of withholding the other 10% is the same as lying.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan
Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you – not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be – but really like you for you. And when you’re creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world. – Hasan Minhaj
You must love without expecting anything in return; otherwise it’s not truly love. You must respect without expecting anything in return; otherwise you don’t truly respect them. You must speak honestly without expecting a pat on the back; otherwise you aren’t truly being honest. – Mark Manson
A few honest men are better than numbers. – Oliver Cromwell
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. – Franz Kafka
Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. – Thomas Paine
Be true to who you are.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A good legacy name stands forever. Cheaters fade, they vanish and go away like nothing.
Lies sound sweet and truth tastes bitter, but believe me or not, lies are worse than truth. Because once truth is exposed it’s exposed but lies go on forever and one day you’ll have to say the truth.
To be authentic is literally to be your own author …, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. – Warren G. Bennis
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth. – William Faulkner
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi
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