Quotes about Honesty

When things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

After all you've been through, you deserve whatever I have left, which is not much but includes the truth.

In God we trust, all others pay cash.