Benjamin Franklin Quotes

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Kids are truthful by nature.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

An honest man is always a child.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Nature admits no lie.

I'm an honest person. I've nothing to hide.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Dandelions don't tell no lies.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

They say that in Hollywood one can't be honest, but I think honesty counts in Hollywood just as much as it does anywhere else. I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

In simplicity there is truth.

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

If one is honest there is no need to remember.