Honesty Quotes

"Lying to avoid problems is like getting drunk to forget them. It’s a temporary solution with the worst sort of hangover."

- Michael Josephson

"The truth is more important than the facts."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do."

- E.V. Lucas

"Never hesitate to say what ought to be said, even if the price of doing so is losing one’s reputation. That is the true spirit of Christ."

- António Vieira

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

- Samuel Johnson

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed."

- Charles John Darling

"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick’d out of ten thousand."

- William Shakespeare

"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything."

- Mark Twain

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it."

- Robert Brault

"Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind."

- Austin O’Malley

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

- Aristotle

"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

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback."

- Bill Copeland

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."

- Mark Twain

"We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us."

- Tad Williams

"If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it."

- Author Unknown

"Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie."

- Robert Brault

"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so."

- Mark Twain

"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after."

- Slovenian Proverb

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."

- Mark Twain

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."

- Robert Brault

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

- Mark Twain

"Truth fears no questions."

- Unknown