Quotes About Integrity

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.