Honesty Quotes

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Plutarch, Morals

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Sallust

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

Richard Needham