Truth Honesty Quotes

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Clever

  "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Trust, Leadership, Truth

  "Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

  Kin Hubbard

  Truth, Honesty, People

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• You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

  Aldous Huxley

  Funny, Bible, Jesus

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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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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• Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

  Walter Anderson

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Truth

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• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Truth, Honesty

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.72, Lulu.com

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  Who lies for you will lie against you.

  John Locke

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Truth, Honesty, Risk

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• When in doubt tell the truth.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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