Honesty Quotes

How little Christianity cultivates the sense of honesty can be inferred from the character of the writings of its learned men. They set out their conjectures as audaciously as if they were dogmas, and are but seldom at a disadvantage in regard to the interpretation of Scripture.

Artists alone hate this sluggish promenading in borrowed fashions and appropriated opinions and they reveal everyone's secret bad conscience, the law that every man is a unique miracle.

Men are even lazier than they are timid, and fear most of all the inconveniences with which unconditional honesty and nakedness would burden them.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Let us be careful, lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Is not life a hundred times too short for us-to bore ourselves?

Master Tyrwhit and others have told me that there goeth rumors abroad which be greatly both against mine honor and honesty, which above all other things I esteem, which be these: that I am in the Tower and with child by my lord admiral. My lord, these are shameful slanders, for the which, besides the great desire I have to see the king's majesty, I shall most heartily desire your lordship that I may come to the court after your first determination, that I may show myself there as I am. Written in haste from Hatfield this 28 of January. Your assured friend to my little power, Elizabeth.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good.

I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

In view of the undoubted honesty of those broad sections of the mass believers in revolutionary defencism who accept the war only as a necessity, and not as a means of conquest, in view of the fact that they are being deceived by the bourgeoisie, it is necessary with particular thoroughness, persistence and patience to explain their error to them, and to prove that without overthrowing capital it is impossible to end the war by a truly democratic peace.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength, hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

I think there are many honest businessman.

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.