Quotes About Honesty

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

Truth never hurts the teller.

A secret's safe'Twixt you, me, and the gatepost!

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Until I started owning the grief and rage from my childhood, the sadness and hurt and fear that I had denied all of my life, I was incapable of being honest with myself, incapable of knowing who I Truly was.

From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs,That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

A prince can mak a belted knight,A marquis, duke, and a' that;But an honest man's aboon his might,Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.

On ev'ry hand it will allow'd be,He's just—nae better than he should be.

An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth, The friend of age, and guide of youth: Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd, Few heads with knowledge so inform'd; If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

In Scrum, we make everything visible. We air our dirty laundry. We are honest about the state of our code because code is never perfect. We become more fully human, more worthy of the divine, and closer to that greatness in the details.

If you are not holding back some energy in reserve, if you don't have a new plan, if you aren't going to change your behavior, and if you are reasonably confident in your original estimate, then promising to try is fundamentally dishonest. You are lying. And you are probably doing it to save face and to avoid a confrontation.

Robert C. Martin

Truth can only be found in one place: the code.

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation.

Programmers must avoid leaving false clues that obscure the meaning of code.

Building trust requires talking and thinking about trust.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.