Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Honesty

Quotes about: Honesty

• I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Success, Truth

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 2, 1595.

• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1915). “The essays of Michael, lord of Montaigne”

• It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Strong, Honesty

• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

• He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

• A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.547

• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Hurtful, Good Nature

  Michel de Montaigne (1800). “Essays, Selected from Montaigne: With a Sketch of the Life of the Author”, p.124

• Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Honesty, Integrity

  Michel de Montaigne (1907). “The Essays”

• God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Men, Made

• Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Matter, Policy

• An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Honesty, Exercise

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