Quotes About Honesty

there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

When everything impossible had been eliminated and what remains is supernatural, then someone is lying.

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.'

La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.

If you have the courage to ask the question, you should have the courage to ask it openly.

Creo que Dios preferiría un ateo honesto y recto a un telepredicador que no hace más que repetir la palabra, Dios, Dios, Dios, y cuyos actos son horribles, horribles, horribles.

sólo una mentira que no estuviera avergonzada de sí misma podía tener éxito. También dijo que nada tenía que ser cierto, pero que todo tenía que sonar como si lo fuese.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

La verdad científica está por encima de la lealtad y la deslealtad.

You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.