Quotes About Honesty

Where ethics are concerned, intentions are everything.

By lying, we deny our friends access to reality9—and their resulting ignorance often harms them in ways we did not anticipate. Our friends may act on our falsehoods, or fail to solve problems that could have been solved only on the basis of good information. Rather often, to lie is to infringe on the freedom of those we care about.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment. In

Funny or not, the story reveals something distasteful about Sita: She will lie when it suits her needs.

I came away convinced that lying, even about the smallest matters, needlessly damages personal relationships and public trust.

One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is among the many corrosive effects of having unjust laws: They tempt peaceful and (otherwise) honest people to lie so as to avoid being punished for behavior that is ethically blameless. 

Uno de los principales problemas del mentiroso es que debe seguir el rastro de sus mentiras.

Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Cuando decimos la verdad, no tenemos nada a lo que seguir el rastro.

Pero el mentiroso deber recordar lo que dijo, y a quién; y debe cuidarse de mantener las falsedades para el futuro.

Lies beget other lies.

To lie is to erect a boundary between the truth we are living and the perception others have of us.

it is in believing one thing while intending to communicate another that every lie is born.

I used to think I had integrity but I came to realize it was just sloth.

Through our combined efforts the kids received your everyday heartland upbringing, based on the same old bedrock values: a belief in the importance of hard work, honesty, neighborliness, and thrift.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

You're never wrong to do the right thing

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

The young man, who intends no ill, Believes that none is intended, and therefore Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.