Quotes About Honesty

Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.

So, "giving advice" as a sales pitch is fundamentally unethical—selling cannot be deemed advice. We can safely settle on that. You can give advice, or you can sell (by advertising the quality of the product), and the two need to be kept separate.

But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.

anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

I enjoyed this book very much. It made me laugh in the right places, hang my head in places, fume in places and overall, admire her pluck, honesty and resilience. It took guts to write this. It must have been an exhausting process for the author but I hope it was cathartic too, and that the book proves useful to others similarly challenged.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

Living consciously implies that my first loyalty is to truth, not to making myself right.

Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness . . . Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.

When we behave in ways that conflict with our judgment of what is appropriate, we lose face in our own eyes.

When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match, we have integrity.

Most of the issues of integrity we face are not big issues but small ones, yet the accumulated weight of our choices has an impact on our sense of self.

It expresses itself in an ease in talking of accomplishments or short-comings with directness and honesty, since one is in friendly relationship to facts.

If integrity is a source of self-esteem, then it is also, and never more so than today, an expression of self-esteem.

Let me say further that one of the characteristics of persons with healthy self-esteem is that they tend to assess their abilities and accomplishments realistically, neither denying nor exaggerating them.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.

Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world!

Siate sinceri! Siate sempre sinceri! E mostrate francamente al mondo, se non proprio il vostro lato peggiore, almeno qualche aspetto, da cui possa essere noto il peggiore male che è in voi.

Fii tu însuÈ›i! Arat?-te lumii aÈ™a cum eÈ™ti, iar dac? nu-i dezv?lui ce-i mai r?u în tine, ofer?-i m?car o tr?s?tur? din care s? ghiceasc? asta!

He had spoken the very truth and transformed it into the veriest falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, eh loathed his miserable self.