The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
~
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.
~ George Herbert
With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
~
Russian Proverb
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~
Arthur C. Clarke
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
~
Gandhi
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
~
George Washington
One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
~
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Honesty is not something to flirt with. We must be married to it.
~
Anon
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
~ Plato
A lie cannot live.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths.
~
African Proverb
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
~ Francis Bacon
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
~
Merry Browne
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
~
Chilton
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain
Who lies for you will lie against you.
~
Bosnian Proverb
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
~
Henry Louis Mencken
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
~ Mark Twain
The Truth requires action.
~
Mason Weaver
The truth of a matter will always haunt you, no matter how secret the hiding place.
~
Anon
Don't measure your neighbor's honesty by your own.
~
American Proverb
There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.
~
Thomas Jefferson
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
~
Spencer Johnson
Do not do what you would undo if caught.
~
Leah Arendt
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
~
Robert Burns
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.
~
John F. Dodge
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
~
Brigham Young
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
~
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
~ William Shakespeare
Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a
success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
~
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!
~
Sir Walter Scott
Irish dramatist, poet, author and one of the most iconic figures from
late Victorian society. For his sexuality he suffered the indignity and shame of imprisonment.
For a long time his name was synonymous with scandal and intrigue.
However with changing social attitudes he is remembered with great affection for his biting social criticism, wit and linguistic skills.
(1854-1900)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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