Quotes about Honesty
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
- Stephen Covey
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
- Tim LaHaye
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
- James Faust
There are a few blacks who have the courage to speak honestly about immorality within the black culture, and whites should work with them to help unite the races with truth.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
- Origen
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
- John F. Kennedy
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
- Philip Yancey