Quotes About Honesty

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

Orwell found that communists and their fellow travellers at the celebration adopted the Marxist position that bourgeois freedoms were illusions, and intellectual honesty was a form of antisocial selfishness: 'Out of this concourse of several hundred people, perhaps half of whom were directly connected with the writing trade, there was not a single one who could point out that freedom of the press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticise and oppose.

Citizens exercised parrhesia, which translates as 'all speech', or sometimes 'true speech'.

Richard Feynman said that the differences between true sciences and the pseudo-sciences – a category that includes the management-speak of the business schools – was that the former try to be honest, while the latter do not.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves.

Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

I've made bad records but I've never made a dishonest record, let's put it that way.

You can find that in all art forms: the minute you inspire laughter you also make that person vulnerable, which means either you can shock them, make them laugh more, or, at that moment, you can be totally honest with them.

Character is what you do when no one else is watching.

If you get word that a co-worker is saying things about you behind your back, confront him or her on it. If an evaluation of your work is false and biased, challenge it. Doing nothing will only worsen the damage. Understand that you can't control everything, so pick your spots and stand up for what you know and believe is right. Communicate when there is a miscommunication.

Do the right thing. It's that simple. Do the right thing when the right thing is not popular. Do the right thing when no one else is around. Do the right thing when temptation tells you otherwise. Do the right thing all the time.

If you get mad at someone for being right, they'll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they'll just lie next time.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.

Honesty and frankness did not mean the captured bandits were fine folk, or kind, only that they might not murder another in their sleep.

It's easy to lie to people you're leaving.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

Speaking straight felt different. She found she liked it.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.