“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“The glue that holds all relationships together, including the relationship between the leader and the led, is trust, and trust is based on integrity.”
Brian Tracy
“Trust, but verify.”
Ronald Reagan
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.”
Frank Crane
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
Booker T. Washington
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
Albert Einstein
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
George MacDonald
“Trust is built with consistency.”
Lincoln Chafee
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Ernest Hemingway
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Warren Buffett
“The best of people are those most beneficial to people.”
Prophet Muhammad · hadith tradition
“The strongest among you is the one who controls his anger.”
Prophet Muhammad · hadith tradition
“I have not seen a more eloquent sermon than silence.”
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · attributed
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · attributed
“Patience is to faith what the head is to the body.”
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · attributed, Nahj al-Balagha tradition
“People are slaves to the world, and religion is just a lip-service from them.”
Imam Hussain ibn Ali · attributed
