Quotes About Honesty

I don't know. I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth—then shut up. It

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 sense of humor.

too many facts hamper a diplomat, especially an honest one." "I'm not especially honest." "But you have no talent for dishonesty, so your refuge must be ignorance and stubbornness. You have the latter; try to preserve the former.

If you're going to be businessmen, don't confuse the vocation with larceny.

Minerva, if I sell a horse, I won't guarantee that it has a leg on each corner; the buyer must count them himself.

Won't discuss bookkeeping this firm used. Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.

the lies a man tells tell more truth about him—when analyzed—than does "truth.

My little Marochka speaks the truth of her heart, as she must. As must every Rasputin. And indeed as must every person.

As Paul Watzlawick notes, that which is objectively repressed (unspeakable) soon becomes subjectively repressed (unthinkable). Nobody likes to feel like a coward and a liar constantly. It is easier to cease to notice where the official tunnel-reality differs from existential fact. Thus SNAFU accelerates and rigiditus bureaucraticus sets in — the last stage before all brain activity ceases and the pyramid is clinically dead as an intellectual entity.

1) until the future arrives, the outcome is uncertain, so Doomsday scenarios, however popular, are not definitive and, for intellectual honesty and clarity, deserve to be criticized and challenged;

Villon is great because he doesn't pretend to know what he doesn't know. What he does know he tells us in direct language—language so simple that stupid critics have debated several hundred years now on what makes his poetry so strong.

Confucius (as the barbarians call him) also taught that, "When the government is honest, the people will learn honesty by example; when the government is crooked, the people will learn to be thieves also.

Nietzsche said that mystics never practiced the kind of ruthless honesty, or skepticism, which he dared. He would have had to withdraw that condemnation in the case of Phil Dick (and also, I think, in the case of Aleister Crowley.) Phil never did stop questioning, doubting and seeking alternative models (masks) to contain-or-explain his 'patanormal perceptions.

it's better to be what I am than to be failing at what I am not.

Anger doesn't have to be expressed. It is enough to know that you're angry, and know why, and not lie to yourself about it.

I ate in the silence and drank my coffee and looked occasionally at Susan's picture on my desk. Let us be true to one another, dear.

Sometimes a secret kept causes pain for one," I said. "And a secret shared causes pain for two.

You need to be able to hear the truth, he thought. You can't hear the truth, you got nowhere to start.

seem an honest man, sir," she said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœLet be be the end of seem,' Ã¢â'¬Â I said. She smiled faintly. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThe only emperor,' Ã¢â'¬Â she said, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœis the emperor of ice-cream.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Very good

Nós não somos tão lúcidos quanto fingimos ser.

Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...

I have been unable to save much money in my life. I have been in politics, and in politics an honest man does not get rich. -Sam Rayburn (whose savings at his death totaled $15,000)

You're not telling us that these promises were not made; you're just saying they don't have to be kept?

I asked people about you, and those people said if you were looking for a guy, then you probably found him. I just can't figure why you won't come clean." "Maybe they're wrong." He nodded. "Could be." "But maybe I just don't like being muscled, so I'm being petulant.