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Honesty

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

65 QUOTES
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Paulo Coelho
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God."
— George Washington
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain
"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth."
— Rumi
"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
— Thomas Sowell
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
— Groucho Marx
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde
"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"
— Jess C. Scott
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
— George Carlin
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."
— Thomas Jefferson
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