Quotes About Honesty

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

Money is made—before it can be looted or mooched—made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

I can do nothing halfway. Those who can, have a fissure somewhere inside. Most people have many. They lie to themselves—not to know that. I've never lied to myself.

Yet no penny of his wealth had been obtained by force or fraud; he was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.

Paray? lanetleyen insan, onu ?erefsizce elde etmi?tir; ona sayg? duyan insan, hak ederek kazanm??t?r.

Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.

She said, "I'm curious. How many here are afraid of change?" No one responded so she suggested, "How about a show of hands?" Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

He had come a long way since his conviction, as a twenty-year-old, that honesty could not be counterfeited.

honesty very nearly constituted a religious principle for her.* She believed in full candor, which was not the same as full disclosure.

Any people who preferred "a wealthy villain" to "an honest upright man in poverty" deserved, Hancock lectured, to find itself oppressed.

There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.

Nosotros contamos la verdad por cuanto en los cuentos siempre triunfa la verdad.

Per un periodo c'eravamo tormentati a furia di sincerità, nell'ingenua convinzione che ci avrebbe salvato

Ä°çinde bir parça kahkaha olmayan bir ciddiyet hakikaten hakiki olamaz.

Yes, there are women who report feeling madly in love with their babies the second they lay eyes on them. These women are either very lucky or lying or needy, and I don't trust them.

When somebody says something that's correct, he has no need to look good.

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

one can either believe in rebirth or not believe in it. But there is a third alternative: that of agnosticism—to acknowledge in all honesty that one does not know. One does not have either to assert it or to deny it; one neither has to adopt the literal versions presented by tradition nor fall into the other extreme of believing that death is a final annihilatio? This, I feel, could provide a good Buddhist middle way for approaching the issue today.