Quotes About Honesty

He lies not because it's in his interest, he lies because it's in his nature." It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted.

My parents were very open with me about that," he recalled.

Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs," he wrote Weizmann in 1929, "then we have learned absolutely nothing during our 2,000 years of suffering.

If something isn't right, you can't just ignore it and say you'll fix it later," he said. "That's what other companies do.

Woz's father taught him something else that became ingrained in his childlike, socially awkward personality: Never lie. "My dad believed in honesty. Extreme honesty. That's the biggest thing he taught me. I never lie, even to this day." (The only partial exception was in the service of a good practical joke.)

forced to realise that Jobs was, for all his visionary genius, deeply flawed, odd and capricious …' Davin O'Dwyer, Irish Times 'This is an authorised but brutally honest account of the life of a legend of our age' Herald Sun 'Isaacson has done an outstanding

But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

of months, he began encouraging people to talk to me, even foes and former girlfriends. Nor did he try to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any

Respete los hechos.

So, you've uncovered the fact that I'm an asshole. Why is that news?

It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted. But he also indulged in being brutally honest at times, telling the truths that most of us sugarcoat or suppress. Both the dissembling and the truth-telling were simply different aspects of his Nietzschean attitude that ordinary rules didn't apply to him.

One weekend Jobs was visiting Wayne at his apartment, engaging as they often did in philosophical discussions, when Wayne said that there was something he needed to tell him. "Yeah, I think I know what it is," Jobs replied. "I think you like men." Wayne said yes. "It was my first encounter with someone who I knew was gay," Jobs recalled.

His embrace, however, did not extend to people who were pretentious or pompous (with the exception of Wiener). When he thought a speaker was spouting nonsense, he would stand up and ask what seemed to be innocent but were in fact devilish questions. After a few moments, the speaker would realize he had been deflated and Licklider would sit down. "He didn't like poseurs or pretenders," Tracy recalled. "He was never mean, but he slyly pricked people's pretensions.

His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish. In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths. She is one of the smartest

to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came when my publisher was choosing the cover

When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted." While

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.

I mention "mosaic," a term often used in biology. "That's a better description than grayscale," she says. "And frankly that's true for all of us. All of us, if we're honest with ourselves, know that we have things that we're great at and things that we're not so great at.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Clark was bulging with lies when I saw him two weeks later. They danced out of his mouth as though they'd been cooped up there and were glad for a chance to stretch their legs.

Il Diavolo è l'uomo più onesto a camminare su questa Terra, aveva detto Coydog. Ti offre il suo tesoro e ti prende l'anima. Lo chiamano il Principe dei Bugiardi, ma non è diverso da un barista: paghi il tuo bel nichelino e ti bevi il veleno che hai scelto.

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.