Quotes about Honesty

If anyone can give me good reason to think that I am going astray in my thoughts or my actions, I will gladly change my ways. For I seek the truth, which has never caused harm to anyone; no, the person who is harmed is one who persists in his self-deception and ignorance. 22

A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.

Be content to seem what you really are.

When things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.

The most noble thing is to be yourself.

There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.

From Alexander the Platonist, not to say to anyone often or without necessity, nor write in a letter, I am too busy, nor in this fashion constantly plead urgent affairs as an excuse for evading the obligations entailed upon us by our relations towards those around us.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.