Honesty Quotes

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.[Also known as:]Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

We all speak well of our hearts, we none of us dare speak well of our minds.[Chacun dit du bien de son coeur, et personne n’en ose dire de son esprit.]

Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.

To speak less of a man’s-self than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man’s value is pusillanimity and cowardice.[Dire de soi moins qu’il n’y en a, c’est de la sottise et non de la modestie; se faire moindre qu’on ne vaut, c’est, lâcheté et pusillanimité.]

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall, than that of defrauding government of its revenues.

The three great things of life are: GOOD HEALTH; WORK; and a PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE. I may add, nay, must add, a fourth – SINCERITY. Without this, the other three are without avail; and with it you may cleave to greatness and sit among giants.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly – it is completely honest.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.[Nichts ist so schwer, als sich nicht betrügen.]

It is as easy to deceive ourselves without knowing it as it is hard to deceive others without their finding it out.[Il est aussi facile de se tromper soi-même sans s’en apercevoir qu’il est difficile de tromper les autres sans qu’ils s’en aperçoivent.]