Quotes About Integrity

Truth and goodness do not depend on me, Bell. I am too weak. I am as poor a thing as General Blessington. Prepare to despise both of us.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

four-fifths of the words attributed to me are things I never said, and would not agree with. If your words cannot stand on their own, adding my name won't make them less flimsy

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Tidak ada yang lebih merusak martabat pemerintah dan hukum negeri dibanding meloloskan undang-undang yang tidak bisa ditegakkan.

If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.