Quotes About Honesty

Everybody does it! Quirke burst out. It's perks ! Everybody? said Vimes. He looked around at the squad. Anyone else here take bribes? His glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronized Observation Team.

I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

What will you do?" said Susan. "Lie," said Lu-Tze happily. "It's amazing how often that works.

Are you a hero, actually?" "Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.

Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was.

Best to get it off his chest. Own up like a man. Take his medicine. Cards on table. Beating about bush, none of. Mercy, throw himself on.

I must always remember what's real.

Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.

The truth shall make thee fret

No one likes a poor thief.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Today, everyone thinks we need to stay positive and hopeful and not be completely honest about what we are seeing, what we know to be true. Whether we're talking about climate change or what's occurring on the streets in Ferguson, we are so afraid of offending people...and then, we only talk to our own constituencies and its' the same rhetoric over and over again until the words become bloodless. (p. 325)

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.

He looked at her, and she couldn't contradict him. Nor could she offer any false reassurance. Silence, at least, was honest.

And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean

There are many ways to tell the truth. It's an art.

Of all the problems in organizations, self-deception is the most common, and the most damaging.

self-betrayal—times when I had a sense of something I should do for others but didn't do it.

If I betray myself," Bud said as he backed away from the board, "my thoughts and feelings will begin to tell me that I'm justified in whatever I'm doing or failing to do." He

You would not lie—you are almost incapable of it. Your disposition would not allow such a thing.

Mary, it is sometimes permissible to lie to others, but it is never wise to lie to oneself.

No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.