Quotes About Honesty

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can't hide a single thing, that she looks hurt when she is hurt, seems happy when happy. That I know at every moment the precise place where she stands. What else can move a man like me, who would find nothing as siren or comforting?

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

The world may admire the truth-tellers, but few will want to employ them.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

Victoria glares at him. 'It doesn't mean anything if you don't mean it.' Zach smiles. 'My dear, I never mean it.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

There is nothing more boring than the truth.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Believe it or not, it's a question of honesty," he said. "If a person is clear about what they want to achieve, if they set about achieving that goal objectively and with precision, more often than not they will succeed.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

The path of truth has meadows of falsity. (Le chemin de la vérité A des prairies de fausseté.)"

We do not hide the truth in eternity. (On ne cache pas le vrai - Dans l'éternité.)