Quotations about Honesty

Quotations about Honesty

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain

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Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb

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No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle

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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

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Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O'Malley

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence," Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert

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With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb

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A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn

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When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain

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A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown

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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

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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

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The truth is more important than the facts. ~Frank Lloyd Wright

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Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. ~Author

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Truth is divided, errors multiply. ~Eli Siegel, Damned

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WelcomeTruth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it. ~Emily Dickinson

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The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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