Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
James E. Faust
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
Jordan Peterson
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Oliver Goldsmith
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Alexander Pope
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him.
Danish proverbs
The archer that shoots ill has a lie ready.
Spanish proverbs
If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
Russian proverbs
The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Confucius
Half the truth is often a great lie.
