Quotes on Honesty

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.