Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make