Quotes About Honesty

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

clear, simple, salient, and meaningful disclosures.

people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers.

Auf dem Rückweg fragte er sich, ob je ein Tag kommen würde, an dem Menschen miteinander umgehen könnten, ohne zu lügen.

To begin, a man who aspires to this kind of personal honesty must throw off all interpretations of himself that depend on anything that supposedly transcends his life, such as a god or a soul. Man exists here in this world, so that must be his point of departure. Staying free from his psychological and intellectual inheritance will be a continual struggle for him, an ever-lurking danger.

Promise less than you deliver

To really succeed in whatever is the business of your choice, you have to come to understand and utterly absorb into your being the fundamentally true idea that your activities in your business are virtuous and moral, provided of course that you conduct your business affairs honestly and honorably. Absorb this lesson into your heart and into your soul, and you will have overcome a major hurdle on your road to financial achievement.

El encierro de la verdad es cómplice de la mentira.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

I, however, am a source of unvarnished truth, even when it hurts. – Oliver Dimbleby

Unlike people, numbers never lied.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon

To be honest with you, I've always felt a little Jewish." "You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?" "I was speaking in a spiritual sense." "You're a professional assassin, Keller.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Kebohongan bukan cuma berlawanan dengan kebenaran, tetapi juga sering saling bertentangan di antara mereka sendiri.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

Tip began to nod, then shook his head. "I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

On his next return to this world, Duncan Cobb, oldest son, faithless cousin, cautious lover, and pal of killers, awoke infused with the lucidity born of no escape, and a mortal dose of honesty.

We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.