Quotes About Honesty

that the facts often concealed the truth.

En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.

I'd rather be honest with myself when it comes to business. I wanted to be better off than most dwells. Don't want to die a beggar. I'm not pretending I got higher purposes than that." - Cery

You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect.

What is it that the child has to teach? The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oídos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa

Sir, Saint-Savin replied, the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Signora, there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart….

there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart...

Madmen and children always speak the truth.

The wise man must attack falsehood not only with his sword but also with his tongue

Then it is he who has sinned, not me. If I had to start worrying whether the client might be lying, I would no longer be in this profession, which is based on trust.

E' virtù sopra la virtù dissimulare la virtù.

I see your point," William said. I had already had occasion to observe that when he expressed himself so promptly and politely he was usually concealing, in an honest way, his dissent or puzzlement.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

Evo zašto mi se dopada ova mašina - glupa je, ne veruje, ne tera me da verujem, radi ono što joj kažem, ako sam ja glup, glupa je i ona ili on. To je pošten odnos.

And truth is indivisible, it shines with its own transparency and does not allow itself to be diminished by our interests or our shame.

Tal es la fuerza de la verdad, que, como la bondad, se difunde por sí misma.

Everyone was poor, but it was out in the open, not tucked out of sight below bridges.

If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.

He was thinking about the boy who cried wolf. Honesty is the best policy. Wasn't that the moral of the story, according to Julian Bashir? Or was it: Never tell the same lie twice.

jealousies and hatreds; there was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar. And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty. The reason for that? Who could say? It must have been old Durham in the beginning; it was a heritage which the self-made merchant had left to his son, along with his millions.