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Honesty

(noun) The act, quality, or condition of being honest. Example: "academic / artistic / emotional / intellectual honesty"

56 QUOTES
"Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
— George Washington
"Anger cannot be dishonest."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest."
— Benjamin Franklin
"I want to be an honest man and a good writer."
— James Baldwin
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Paulo Coelho
"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
— Albert Camus
"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
— Albert Einstein
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde
"Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?"
— Socrates
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
— Jess C. Scott
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