Quotes on “Honesty” “Honesty is the best policy.” - Benjamin Franklin “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” - Albert Einstein “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson "An honest answer is the sign of a true friendship.” “It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.” - Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid "Honesty is an active verb, not a passive noun. Go out of your way to be truthful, beginning with the things that you say to yourself" - Joe Tye "I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you." - Friedrich Nietzsche “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.” -Austin O’Malley “Oh, what a tangled web we weave … when first we practice to deceive.” – Walter Scott, Marmion “Hiding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn’t make you nice, it just makes you a liar.” - Jenny O’Connell, The Book of Luke “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.” – Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg