honesty Quotes

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

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

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.