"Honesty is the best proverb

 "Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man

 The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

 Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest

 Occasionally, when honesty was the best policy, he was honest

 We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy
  George Bernard Shaw

 In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
  Gerald R. Ford

 In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

 Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission
  Thomas Jefferson

 Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

 Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
  Karl Popper

 Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
  Walter Lippmann

 Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
  William Hazlitt

 Americans value honesty in advertising, and the so-called crisis pregnancy centers should not be exempt from living up to this basic principle.

 Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
  Herbert Clark Hoover

 The poem is common-sense relationships. It's really what it is, ... All the lines are different relationships and if you look at it, you'll see that. Honesty and truth are relationships. If you're honest with your children, they learn truth, you see. Or if you're truthful with them, they learn honesty. They're just a few that are a jump like, `acceptance equals love,' but they are really just common knowledge.


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