Honesty

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
George Bernard Shaw

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare

“Truth is our most valuable commodity – let us economise.”
Mark Twain

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer 

“prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.”
Chilton

“A lie gets halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
Albert Einstein

“The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.”
Richard Feynman

“Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find out the truth.”
Ashleigh Brilliant

“It’s better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.”
Arthur Calwell

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson

“it is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.”
Jerome K. Jerome

“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
Tom Stoppard

“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.”
Pope John Paul II

“Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Sir Winston Churchill

“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Frank Lloyd Wright