Quotes About Honesty

everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.

Your ikigai is a work in progress because you are a work in progress. Knowing your ikigai, then, takes patience and insight, and courage, and honesty.

None of my assets are hidden," said Darren.

I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said")—in

Telling the truth is not a magic formula for having a smooth life. But living a life of integrity is actually easier than living one built around deceit and distortion.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

An honest politician is one that stays bought.

If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it!

I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

Call it that if you like. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.

I told you when you hired him that—" "When I hired him?" "Don't interrupt. —that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.

Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her husband was away.

May I ask this? Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?" "Uh . . . that's a trick question." "It is the key question, dear Wyoming. A radical question that strikes to the root of the whole dilemma of government. Anyone who answers honestly and abides by all consequences knows where he stands—and what he will die for.

Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and found himself compulsively following his legal training, being an honest advocate in spite of himself, attempting to support a religious belief he did not hold but which was believed by most human beings. He found that, willy-nilly, he was attorney for the orthodoxies of his own race against—he wasn't sure what. An unhuman viewpoint.

martyrdom. If Mike had given them something big—like stereo, or bingo—but he gave them the Truth. Or a piece

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.