Honesty

QUOTES

An honest man's the noblest work of God.
 Alexander Pope
 Essay on Man, 1734

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
 T H Huxley
 1881

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
 William Blake
 Auguries of Innocence, 1803

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth, makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
 Charles Peguy
 Basic Verities, 1899

It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
 Jerome Jerome
 The Idler, 1892

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Conduct of Life, 1860

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
 Aristotle
 -350

'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
 George Gordon, Lord Byron
 Don Juan, 1824

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
 John Locke
 Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1690

See Also Plagiarism

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