Mark Twain
“When in doubt, tell the truth.”
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Author Unknown
“Truth fears no questions.”
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Leah Arendt
“Do not do what you would undo if caught.”
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Author Unknown
“A half truth is a whole lie.”
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Edgar J. Mohn
“A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.”
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Brigham Young
“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
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Author Unknown
“If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.”
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Cicero
“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
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Euripides
“Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.”
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Barbara Kingsolver
“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
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Cicero
“What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.”
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Author Unknown
“Who lies for you will lie against you.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
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Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”
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Mark Twain
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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Austin O'Malley
“Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”
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Author Unknown
“With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.”
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Bill Copeland
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.”
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Mark Twain
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.”
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Author Unknown
“A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.”
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Author Unknown
“Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.”
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Proverbs 27:6
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”
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John A. Widtsoe
“Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.”
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Author Unknown
“Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”
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Socrates
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.”
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Christian Nevell
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
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Frank Hubbard
“Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.”
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George Orwell
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
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Noel Coward
“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
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Samuel Johnson
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.”
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Sir Walter Scott
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.”
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Proverbs 12:19
“The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”
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Sam Rayburn
“Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.”
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Spencer Johnson
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
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Thomas Carlyle
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
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Proverbs 12:20
“Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace is joy.”
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Proverbs 11:18
“The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.”
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Antiphanes of Macedonia
“The gains of the wicked bring short-lived pleasure, but afterwards long-continued grief.”
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Proverbs 12:5
“The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.”
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Winston Churchill
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”
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Psalm 101:7
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.”
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Jeremiah 9:6
“Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.”
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Isaiah 56:11
“Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”
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Robert C. Edwards
“Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.”
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Christian Nevell Bovee
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
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Matthew 24:24
“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”
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Colossians 2:8
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Ephesians 5:6
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
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Joseph Smith
“There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.”
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Psalms 101:7
“He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.”
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Karen Moline
“If you avoid the truth, you pay for your lies. A lie always does the most harm to the person who tells it.”
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John A. Widtsoe
“Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.
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Deuteronomy 11:16
“Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them.”
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Mattew 13:22
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.”
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Tad Williams
“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.”
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Lesley Conger
“Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the on we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator’s psyche.”
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John A. Widtsoe
“Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.”
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John 8:44
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
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Mark E. Peterson
"Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian…it is anti--Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus."
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