Quotes About Honesty

In a way it's so easy, all he has to do is say what they want to hear and they're happy, they love him, everybody gets along. Sometimes he has to remind himself there's no dishonor in it. He hasn't told any lies, he doesn't exaggerate, yet so often he comes away from these encounters with the sleazy, gamey aftertaste of having lied.

So what does it mean for a person to devote himself or herself to, as you put it, "literary reading and thinking"? I would argue this is a person who's trying to see things for what they are. Who's interested in distinguishing the truth from the lies, the real from the fake, the solid from the cheap. Those are the people who want to think for themselves, and I really question whether we can make good lives for ourselves if we aren't doing our own thinking.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. —G. C. Lichtenberg

Instead of listening to Hoffman and his lapdog analysts, traders should have heeded the honest warning in Commerce One's annual report for 1999: "We have never been profitable. We expect to incur net losses for the foreseeable future and we may never be profitable.

So first find a low-cost fund whose managers are major shareholders, dare to be different, don't hype their returns, and have shown a willingness to shut down before they get too big for their britches. Then, and only then, consult their Morningstar rating.10

I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.

The solution to the problem of race in America will be found only by ordinary people, "good" people, looking inside themselves, being honest about the assumptions and biases that have formed, and beginning to change what's in their hearts.

Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.

Nós queremos a fidelidade nas pessoas que amamos, senhora, então não é óbvio que elas a queiram em nós? A fidelidade é um presente que oferecemos aos que amamos.

A man without honour has no reputation

If you never write anything down then no one knows exactly what you said so you can always change it.

He'll fight like a bull,' I said, 'and he's honest. But does he think like a wildcat?

You take me for a fool, Douglas?" "I take you as you show yourself, John Randolph

Priests have never been great men for the truth

He'll fight like a bull and he's honest. But does he think like a wildcat?

The truth cannot be hidden.

And so he lied because he can't speak the truth. His tongue is bent. He breaks oaths, my lady, and he swears black is white and white is black, and men believe him because he has honey on his bent tongue. But I know him, my lady, because he's my man, he's sworn to me." And with that I leaned down from the saddle and took hold of Haesten's mail coat, shirt, and cloak, and hauled him up. He

Only a fool leaves cash where a servant can find it,' he said.

and that was the first truthful answer he had given to the Norseman. For the priest had held a sword many times before and he did know how to fight and I doubted he was ready to die. He was Father Pyrlig.

Poor as an honest lawyer.

Write your heart out.

Quando un uomo è onesto dorme tranquillo. E questo vale più di cinque centesimi rubati.

Any man over forty is a scoundrel.

The truth of what one says lies in what one does.