Quotes about Honesty
It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
No good can ever come of falsehood
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If your abilities are only mediocre, modesty is mere honesty; but if you possess great talents, it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
- Audre Lorde
Once it was easy to know who were my people... I do not believe our wants have made all our lies holy.
- Audre Lorde
More than twenty years later I meet Muriel at a poetry reading at a women's coffee-house in New York. Her voice is still soft, but her great brown eyes are not. I tell her, "I am writing an unfolding of my life and loves." "Just make sure you tell the truth about me," she says.
- Audre Lorde
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
- Ayn Rand
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
- Ayn Rand
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
- Ayn Rand