Quotes About Honesty

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is that it demands of its participants only that they observe a relatively few basic principles, among them honesty, the sanctity of contracts, and respect for private property.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.

If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love.

My Constanze is the virtuous, honourable, discreet, and faithful darling of her honest and kindly-disposed Mozart.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.