A lie is still a lie if everyone believes it,
and the truth is still the truth if no one believes it.
-Dan Scott

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the best policy;
but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
-Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie  guarded.
- Pope John Paul II

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare

A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.
-Babylonian Talmud

It often requires more bravery to tell the simple truth than it does to win a battle.
-Josh Billings

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

When the truth is in your way you're on the wrong road.
Henry Wheeler Shaw