(1215 quotes found)
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
Chanakya
“Better an honest enemy than a false friend”
German Proverb
“We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.”
Mark Twain
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”
Benjamin Franklin
“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”
Will Rogers
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison”
“So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way”
“To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips”
Bible
“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.”
Cornel West
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