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Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.
Sep 19, 2025
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law.
Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.
Honesty is the best policy.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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.
Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.
I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.