Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Honesty

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  • A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

    Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.92, Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.18, Courier Corporation
  • A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.

    Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing
  • Honesty is the best policy.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.209, Regnery Publishing
  • 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250
  • I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived.

    Men  
    Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings WELD (1849). “Benjamin Franklin: his Autobiography, with a narrative of his public life and services by H. H. Weld”, p.98
  • Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

    Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149
  • The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

    "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.
  • Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin .. Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Litarary, and Political Subjects: Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790; Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations. Now First Published from the Originals”, p.250
  • A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

    Atheism  
    Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

    Poor Richard's Almanack, Dec. 1733
  • Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

  • Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

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Benjamin Franklin

  • Born: January 17, 1706
  • Died: April 17, 1790
  • Occupation: Founding Father of the United States