Quotes about Honesty
Truth by definition excludes.
- Ravi Zacharias
When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
- Shonda Rhimes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
- Malcolm X
political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth
- Karl Barth
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
- John Calvin
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- Oscar Wilde
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
- Richard Sibbes
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.
- Thomas Jefferson
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
- William Faulkner
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
- John Adams