Quotes about Honesty

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.