Quotes On Honesty And Dishonesty

#1. My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

John Cullum

#2. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

#3. It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.

Noel Coward

#4. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. A partial truth is the most common path to an entire lie.

Fred Munoz

#6. We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Gary Hopkins

#7. Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Robert Greene

#8. Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

#9. Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.

Criss Jami

#10. Honesty is the best insurance policy.

Brian Spellman

#11. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.

Orest Stocco

#12. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#13. Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

Michael Josephson

#14. But it wasn't more honestly that would have saved me, I thought; it was more dishonesty. In my experience, honesty and expressing your feelings could lead to only one thing. Disaster.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos ...

Robert Green Ingersoll

#16. half truths equal whole lies

Fred Munoz

#17. I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Patti Smith

#18. There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

M.J. Rose

#19. Brent never trusted anyone who couldn't look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.

Kenneth Eade

#20. The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

Ford Madox Ford

#21. If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

Michele Zackheim

#22. Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#23. You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

Fred Munoz

#24. Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

Loknath

#25. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

#27. Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Criss Jami

#28. Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

Criss Jami

#29. There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

Randeep Hooda

#30. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

E.W. Howe

#31. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Neil Postman

#32. How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#34. We've all become so conscious of how we'll be perceived and so frightened to
possibly offend someone that we've filtered ourselves to what borders on dishonesty. Sure, as my wife constantly reminds me, you don't have to say everything you think; but when did speaking plainly become such a sin?

Aaron Blaylock

#35. There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Milton Friedman

#36. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Criss Jami

#37. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

Andrew Klavan

#38. Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#39. Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin

#40. Honesty whispers, Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.

Angelica Hopes

#41. He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.

Elizabeth Strout

#42. Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

Dorothy Parker

#43. I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.

G.K. Chesterton

#44. I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

Frank Zappa

#45. Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

Mao Zedong

#46. Unfortunately in today's world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Munia Khan

#47. People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.

Dada Bhagwan

#48. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

#49. Honesty is the best Policy is the Capitalistic thought as it gives free of cost Security to their assets and to their investments........

Tarif Naaz

#50. The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Criss Jami

#51. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Criss Jami

#52. Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Flann O'Brien

#53. The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

Bill W.

#54. The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

Stefan Molyneux

#55. Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

Bobby Bowden

#56. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens