Is honesty really the best policy in life????

Honesty is the best policy. It is true for now and will forever. What you said of todays world, that is true in todays world people do not believe this and are every now or then dishonest or lie. Now to tackle such situation of dishonesty honestly refrain from such people and whatever the extent possible try to keep honest. The power of honesty often wins over dishonest. But in those cases where someone is dishonestly hurting you career or personal issues just stand straight against those. And if you say to go up in career some dishonest person with their dishonesty goes up, it is also true but do observe that the person will fall down very quick when once his dishonesty is tracked by any honest person. So we should try to be honest as far as possible.