Quotes About Ethics

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in the long run.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.