Quotes on Honesty

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian writers usually say "God," "Mother Earth," "Human Being, Dog, and Bird."

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Living _x000D_ consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and _x000D_ responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the _x000D_ moment.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.