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Quotes About Honesty

Forming impressions of the CEO's character, intelligence, energy and trustworthiness can be gleaned using a variety of questioning techniques. Intellectual honesty can be tested by asking the CEO to pick out what he or she thinks is important. To unsettle the more promotional CEOs, we like to ask what is not working and wait to see whether they have given the matter much thought.
~ Edward Chancellor
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.
~ Edward Gibbon
Watch what I do –           that reflects who I am. Don't just listen to what I say, that only reflects who I want to be.
~ Edward James
Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold.
~ Edward John Trelawny
Perversity, sadism, sexual aberration, etc., are parts of the nomenclature of the human spirit—just like altruism, fellowship, love, and all that. No, I'm not saying it's cool to be perverse, sadistic, and sexually aberrant, but I think it's honest to be curious about the very worst that humanity has to offer, and the very worst manner in which mankind has presented itself. Not only is it honest, I dare say it's healthy
~ Edward Lee
It's always a good rule in life to be as honest with people as you can, but never tell them where the money is.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
The fastest way to bring a wrecking ball to our skewed interpretations is through confession.
~ Edward T. Welch
Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn't mean that sin caused your depression.
~ Edward T. Welch
You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All
~ Edward T. Welch
From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.
~ Edwidge Danticat
From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Don't any of you go taking any notice of the Government's promises. They will tell you anything to get you in but when you "do your bit" as they call it, you will soon be forgotten and so will the promises – don't you forget that. Now you must do as you think right.
~ Albert B. Facey
What is immoral to do is immoral to threaten.
~ Albert Bandura
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
~ Albert Barnes
Integrity has no need of rules.
~ Albert Camus
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
~ Albert Camus
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
~ Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~ Albert Camus
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~ Albert Camus
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
~ Albert Camus
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~ Albert Camus
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
~ Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~ Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
~ Albert Einstein