Quotes about Honesty
If lying and fabrication are psychologically harmful even in ordinary relations with other men (a sphere where a certain amount of falsification is not uncommon) all falsity is disastrous in any relation with the ground of our own being
— Thomas Merton
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.
— CS Lewis
I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.
— Calvin Coolidge
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
— Carl Jung
The way to truth stands open only to those without intentions.
— Carl Jung
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
— George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— George Eliot
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
— George Eliot
My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
— Isabel Allende