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Honesty Quotes and Sayings

Truth fears no questions.
Author Unknown

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up.
Author Unknown

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Adlai Stevenson

The truth needs so little rehearsal.
Barbara Kingsolver

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Saki

Always tell the truth. If you can’t always tell the truth, don’t lie.
Author Unknown

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Edgar J. Mohn

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
Mark Twain

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
Author Unknown

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

I don’t mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
R.D. Laing

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.
The Quotes Junction

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
James Cardinal Gibbons

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
Mark Van Doren

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
Author Unknown

When truth is divided, errors multiply.
Eli Siegel

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
Emily Dickinson

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?
Patrick Sky

f you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

Who lies for you will lie against you.
Bosnian Proverb

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

A half truth is a whole lie.
Yiddish Proverb

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

With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back.
Russian proverb

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce

2 Comments

  1. Fiana says:

    ” Honesty is praised and left to shiver. ”
    Juvenal

  2. Sweet says:

    ” I write the truth and it kills me. ”
    Sarah Kane 1971-99

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