“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”
Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

“Who lies for you will lie against you.”
Bosnian Proverb

“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln

“A half truth is a whole lie.”
Yiddish Proverb

“With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back.”
Russian proverb

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”
Winston Churchill

“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
Slovenian Proverb

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”
William Shakespeare

“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.”
Confucius

“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
Albert Einstein

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth.”
Jewish Proverb

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.”
Mark Twain

“Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson