Morality...Virtues...HONESTY
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0775 C
“Honesty is the best policy.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
HONESTY, Principles, Competition
0776 PH
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
HONESTY, Dishonesty
0777
“‘Honesty’ without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.” — Rose N. Franzblau
HONESTY, Love
0778 P
“Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.” — Confucius
HONESTY, Character
0779
“To know the truth is easy; to follow it is difficult.” — Chinese Proverb
HONESTY, Principles
0780 A
“Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.” — Sir William Temple
HONESTY, War & Peace
0781
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” — William Shakespeare
HONESTY, Wealth
0782
“Truth is always the strongest argument.” — Sophocles
HONESTY, Judgment
0783
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” — Thomas Jefferson
HONESTY, Wisdom
0784
“When in doubt tell the truth.” — Mark Twain
HONESTY, Prudence, Doubt
0785 H
“Truth is shorter than fiction.” — Unknown
HONESTY, Dishonesty
0786 H
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” — Josh Billings
HONESTY, Dishonesty
0787
“I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.” — Stanley Baldwin
HONESTY, Law, Perception
0788
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair for the future nor indict the past.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
HONESTY, Punishment
0789
“A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.”
— Lord Halifax
HONESTY, Communication, War & Peace
0790 HA
“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you
get your brains kicked out.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
HONESTY, Errors, Prudence, Anger, Punishment
0791 H
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” — Slovenian Proverb
HONESTY, Prudence
0792 C
“One does not have to believe everything one hears.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
HONESTY, Judgment, Communication
0793 A
“Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison
sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?”
— Tryon Edwards
HONESTY, Errors
0794 C
“To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.” — William Shakespeare
HONESTY, Character, Excellence
0795
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
HONESTY, Errors, Punishment, Perception, Pessimism
0796 C
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” — John Keats
HONESTY, Love
HONESTY Cross-References
Optimism—126 • Judgment—677, 680 •
Honor—813 • Dishonesty—864, 871 • Character—934, 936 •
Sciences—1086-1087, 1106 • Competition—1181 • Reward—1210 •
Politics—1244 • Individualism—1349 • Speeches—1403-1404
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