Quotes About Honesty

Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,

he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),

Knavery and flattery are blood relations." —Abraham Lincoln

You won't be taken seriously if you are too cheap," Marta had explained. "And the people who need your service will pay without a twitch. You can haggle slightly if someone is desperate or just needs a quick question.

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.

Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

Eine ideale Lüge besteht aus der Aneinanderreihung verschiedener wahrer Versatzstücke, an denen man bestimmte Auslassungen vornimmt; im Grunde genommen setzt sie sich im Wesentlichen aus Auslassungen in Verbindung mit einigen wohldosierten Übertreibungen zusammen.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

people suffer much more from the promises they don't make than the ones they can't keep

Si la ciencia ha de avanzar, lo que necesitamos es la capacidad de experimentar, honestidad a la hora de informar de los resultados (los resultados han de difundirse sin que nadie diga cómo le hubiera gustado que fueran los resultados) y finalmente, una cosa importante, la inteligencia para interpretar los resultados.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.