Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Honesty rare as a man without self - Pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

Stephen Vincent Benet

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

Sterne

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. On President Richard M Nixon.

Irving Layton