Quotes About Honesty

From the beginning of my administration, I have made it clear that I will budget openly and honestly with the people of Louisiana.

My career is based on openness and honesty.

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

Anybody who has ever been around me knows I'll give you my opinion.

Kids give you their most honest opinion and that's a beautiful thing. They don't care about hurting your feelings, they're just getting their point across whether they like it or not and sometimes you need that.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

I know at times I've been very guilty of being too honest at times or too opinionated at times and it costs you a nickel or two.

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Pray do! I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

Men become old, but they never become good.

In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.

I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles. MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.