Quotes About Integrity

In the face of all the uncertainties that surround any decision, the wise man acts in the light of his best judgment illumined by the integrity of his profoundest spiritual insights. Then the rest is in the hands of the future and in the mind of God. The possibility of error, of profound and terrible error, is at once the height and the depth of man's freedom. For this, God be praised!

The penalty of deception is to become a deception, with all sense of moral discrimination vitiated. A man who lies habitually becomes a lie, and it is increasingly impossible for him to know when he is lying and when he is not. In other words, the moral mercury of life is reduced to zero.

I will make of my life a High Priest of Truth.

The desire to be one's true self is ever persistent.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it. By definition it must, because it nurtures everything except those things that are important: integrity, ethics, truth, our very heart and soul. Why? The reason is simple: because Life/life is giving, not getting.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Misfortune is a test of people's fidelity. Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Keep on being yourself.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

And until that day comes every true man's place/ is to reject all else and be with the lowest,/ the poorest - in the bottom of that deepest of wells/ in which alone is truth; in which is truth only - truth that should shine like the sun,/ with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God.

And let the lesson be - to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's - and to mak' that worth bein' Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

Forgiveness calls on deep reserves of moral courage: the courage to break out of the spiral of self-pity; the courage to set aside resentment; the courage to rise above biterness; the courage to act well, when all our instincts call on us to act badly. p112

Stories abound... of governments' heavy reliance on focus groups and other forms of research to pre-test the likely political effect of policies. Not to test the integrity or efficacy of the polices; not to see whether it fits within a particular philosophical framework, merely to test its palatability or, to be brutally frank, its likely contribution to a government's prospects of re-election.

The integrity of any theory, Kuhn argued, lies in its falsifiability - that is, its openness to the possibility of repudiation in the light of more evidence, fresh insights or a more creative interpretation of data whose significance was not previously understood.

How we respond in the face of a challenge tells us more about who we really are than all the pious rhetoric about our alleged attitudes, values or aspirations. [p37]