Honesty Quotes

Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 3 scene 1

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard Needham

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz