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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Being Yourself, Men

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Loyalty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.416

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• Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1122, Library of America

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• Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, Success, Honesty

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  George Washington

  Trust, Hope, Truth

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Trust, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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  Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Children, Truth

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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

  Aristotle

  Truth, Honesty, Ethics

  Aristotle (2015). “On The Heavens”, p.10, Aristotle

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Cheating, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.43, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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• We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

  Michelle Obama

  Honesty, Integrity, Squares

  Speeach at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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