Quotes About Honesty

The full truth was a little too much to throw at a stranger.

I had no idea why I was saying this. It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weaknesses.

because displaying real emotion would be gross.

Didn't say we tell each other everything

She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a saint. You're a bitch.

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?

No. I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

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His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.

He explained why an honest building, like an honest man, had to be of one piece and one faith; what constituted the life source, the idea in any existing thing or creature, and why—if one smallest part committed treason to that idea—the thing or the creature was dead; and why the good, the high and the noble on earth was only that which kept its integrity.

one can't be good halfway or honest approximately.

Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.

If you want to defeat any kind of vicious fraud—comply with it literally, adding nothing of your own to disguise its nature.

honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Self-sacrifice, we drool, is a virtue. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thoughts? But these are a man's supreme possessions. Anything he gives up for them is not a sacrifice but an easy bargain.

The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on.

You honest men are such a problem and such a headache. But we knew you'd slip sooner or later—and this is just what we wanted. You seem to be pleased about it. Don't I have good reason to be? But, after all, I did break one of your laws. Well, what do you think they're for?

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth." "That particular truth was none of his business." "His particular estimate of it was none of your concern or mine.

Yo he aprendido que una mentira constituye un acto de autoabdicación, porque al mentir rendimos la propia realidad a la persona a quien se miente, convirtiéndola en dueña de una. Y a partir de entonces nos condenamos a fingir la clase de realidad que aquella persona requiere para ser engañada.