The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. — Abu Bakr
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty. — Plato
Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them. — Christian Nevell Bovee
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. — Samuel Johnson
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for. — Johnny Depp
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. — James E. Faust
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. — Benjamin Franklin
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction. — James Weldon Johnson
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. — Hannah Arendt
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. — Horace Mann
Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable. — Shannon Alder
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. — Spencer Johnson
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. — Noel Coward
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. — Mark Twain
Dishonesty And Lying Image Quotes
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Dishonesty Quotes
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Who lies for you will lie against you. — John Locke
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. — Fulton J. Sheen
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance. — Frank Zappa
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them. — Paul Ekman
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe
Dishonest Quotes
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. — Miyamoto Musashi
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. — Slobodan Milosevic
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people. — Slobodan Milosević
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. — Richard M. Nixon
I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. — Seymour Papert
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
A dishonest conversation about race in America is preventing us from having an honest conversation about race in America. — Bret Weinstein
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. — Barry Goldwater
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. — S. Truett Cathy
Lying And Deception Quotes
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. — Chris Hedges
Never lie unless you have to, and if you don’t have a dang good lie, stick to the truth. — American Proverbs
Advertising is legalized lying.
Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all. — Mark Twain
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. — Marco Tempest
A lie has many variations, the truth none.
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium... Photograph and be photographed. — Alexander Rodchenko
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. — Shannon Alder
Lying And Cheating Quotes
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. — Al-Ghazali
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist? — H. L. Mencken
What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America. — Marian Wright Edelman
Our greatest weaknes lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just on more time.
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love. — Whitney M. Young
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits. — Steven Weber
The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power. — Helen Caldicott
Hurt me with the TRUTH but never comfort me with a LIE!
No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce. — Peter Kreeft
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. — Archibald Cox
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away. — Will Smith
Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are. — Stephen Levine
Truth And Honesty Quotes
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. — William Faulkner
Do the right thing because it is right. — Immanuel Kant
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. — Charles R. Swindoll
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. — Dalai Lama
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware — Paul Tillich
People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach. — David A. Bednar
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Not Being Truthful Quotes
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones — John Lennon
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. — Fannie Lou Hamer
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies. — William Shakespeare
Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. — Irenaeus of Lyons
He who dares not offend cannot be honest. — Thomas Paine
Consequences Of Lying Quotes
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. — Leon Trotsky
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie. — Lord Byron
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar. — L. Ron Hubbard
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. — Samuel Johnson
The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted. — Walid Jumblatt
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression — Albert Einstein
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie. — Eugene Linden
I'd rather deal with the consequences of the truth rather than the benefits of a lie. — Devin Kelley
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide. — Zig Ziglar
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love. — Cesar Millan
The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity. — Brian Tracy
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! — Mark Twain
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity. — Zig Ziglar
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. — Dennis Prager
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty. — Howard Cosell
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. — American Proverbs
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey
Trust And Honesty Quotes
Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship. — Mike Paul
Enterprise customers have been working together with us for a long time, they trust us, and we just keep everything open and transparent. — Eric Yuan
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. — Louis Pasteur
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win. — James Hunt
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. — Thomas Sowell
Live your own truth and it won't matter how many lies they tell about you. The truth will prove itself. — Tony Gaskins
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. — Richard Pryor
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral. — Christopher Hitchens
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. — Norodom Sihanouk
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. — William Shakespeare
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. — Benjamin Franklin
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy. — Napoleon Hill
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. — Jodi Picoult
Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power. — Stuart Wilde
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. — Croft M. Pentz
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. — Philip Sidney
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. — Todd Rundgren
The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored. — Tariq Ramadan
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — Sigmund Freud
That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets. — Amy Tan
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men. — Plutarch
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it. — Robert Wagner
It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying. — Michel de Montaigne
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. — Clayton Christensen
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that. — David Arquette
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble. — Adlai Stevenson I
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. — Luc De Clapiers
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable. — Sophocles
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure. — Thomas Paine
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sociopaths are not usually physically violent. A typical sociopath never kills anybody and doesn't look like Charles Manson - they look like you and me and everybody else. You're not looking for someone who's recognizably evil or scary-looking, but rather someone who looks normal. Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects. — Martha Stout
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means. — James Cook
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all. — Lord Chesterfield
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress. — Samuel Richardson
Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others. — Daniel Starch
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use. — Clarence Darrow
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal. — Bill Cosby
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to. — Sam Harris
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace. — M.J. Rose
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