Quotes About Honesty

I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.

Honesty is all I've got, she said finally, speaking in a low voice. I don't have family. I don't have beauty, or a man. I don't have money, and I sure as hell don't have a future. All I've got to prop up my pride is my word. Her chin rose. When Jenny Jones says something, you can bet your last peso that it's true.

Be who you seem to be.

Transparency is the idea that people's behavior and demeanor—the way they represent themselves on the outside—provides an authentic and reliable window into the way they feel on the inside.

Greenberg] knew that cultural legacies matter--that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed. But he didn't assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are. He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.

Puzzle Number One: Why can't we tell when the stranger in front of us is lying to our face?

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a unified trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest.

What Hartshorne and May concluded, then, is that something like honesty isn't a fundamental trait, or what they called a "unified" trait. A trait like honesty, they concluded, is considerably influenced by the situation.

this is the assumption of transparency in action. We tend to judge people's honesty based on their demeanor. Well-spoken, confident people with a firm handshake who are friendly and engaging are seen as believable. Nervous, shifty, stammering, uncomfortable people who give windy, convoluted explanations aren't.

Aplicamos el sesgo de veracidad —aun cuando esa decisión acarrea riesgos terribles— porque no tenemos elección. La sociedad no puede funcionar de otra manera. Y en esos casos raros en los que la confianza termina en traición, aquellos que son victimizados por el sesgo de veracidad merecen nuestra simpatía, no nuestra censura.

American, Swiss, and Japanese taxpayers are pretty honest. So are most of the other Western European democracies. Greece, Spain, and Italy are not. In fact, the level of tax evasion in Greece is such that the country's deficit—which is so large that Greece has teetered on the brink of outright bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed.

I believed in you always until I couldn't anymore. Isn't that an almost perfect statement of default to truth?

Levine argumenta que este é o pressuposto da transparência em ação. Nós tendemos a julgar a honestidade das pessoas baseadas na maneira como se expressam.

In those rare cases where trust ends in betrayal, those victimized by default to truth, deserve our sympathy, not censure.

In vino veritas: "In wine there is truth.

When a liar acts like an honest person, though, or when an honest person acts like a liar, we're flummoxed.

What we get in exchange for being vulnerable to an occasional lie is efficient communication and social coordination.

We're much better than chance at correctly identifying the students who are telling the truth. But we're much worse than chance at correctly identifying the students who are lying. We go through all those videos, and we guess—"true, true, true"—which means we get most of the truthful interviews right, and most of the liars wrong. We have a default to truth: our operating assumption is that the people we are dealing with are honest.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don'tcheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.