Quotes on Honesty

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.

“God,” she cried, “what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you be prepared for that? Everything we can't bear in this world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.”

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

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.