Quotes About Honesty

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Even a writer like me, who, in 'The Firebird,' is telling the story of people who've been dead for nearly three centuries, needs to take care. Those people may not be around any longer to tell me what actually happened, but neither are they able to defend themselves against unjust portrayals.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Closer to home, the one person who I really admire and take inspiration from is a relatively unknown man in today's day and age. He was the second Prime Minister of India - Lal Bahadur Shastri, a man of impeccable integrity, amongst other traits.

I never smile unless I mean it.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, 'Why weren't you there?' and he says, 'I'm going to really tell you the truth,' then you won't know.

I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.