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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Honesty – select quotes

One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian, in The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~ Samuel Butler

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~ Charles Dickens

The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson

White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
~ Frederick Marryat

An honest man is the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~ Winston Churchill

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
~ Walter Scott

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~ William Shakespeare

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~ William Shakespeare

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~ Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain

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June 3, 2012 by kevinstilley

Self-Deception – select quotes

I reject your reality, and substitute my own.
~ Mythbusters’ Adam Savage after adding his percentages to 120%

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, we readily believe.
~ Demosthenes, in Third Olynthiac

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
~ Thomas Carlyle

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
~ Benjamin Franklin

A lie that is accepted as truth, will affect your life as if it is true, even though it’s a lie.
~ Bill Ewing

It is as easy to deceive one’s self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.”
~ La Rochefoucauld

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
~ La Rochefoucauld

You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.
~ Jodi Picault

To be specific, the self-sins are these: self-righteousness, self-pity, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-admiration, self-love and a host of others like them. They dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins, egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion, are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, form any people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
~ A.W. Tozer, in The Pursuit of God, Chapter 3 – Removing the Veil

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Lies / Deception / Dishonesty – select quotes

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~ Shakespeare

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain

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Honesty – select quotes

Self-Deception – select quotes

Lies / Deception / Dishonesty – select quotes

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