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Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.
Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.
Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.
An honest heart loves the Truth.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
Sincere heart, quiet soul.
Above any commercial success one might enjoy, one's reputation for honesty is the most important thing
Honesty was for those who could afford it, like heating or electricity or a conscience.
the degree of our honesty and justice.
Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing to pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness, it is greatness itself.
An honest man's the noblest work of God
Both transparency and trust form the basic component of truth itself. With truth, there is no need to be untrue. If one is truthful, then there is godliness because God is truth. And when godliness is on your side, success is guaranteed.
Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
What is more arrogant than honesty?
Honesty is the knife with which we carve our paths. Sometimes we cut ourselves or others in the process.
Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate,
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Sincerity is moral truth.
Honesty requires that we communicate our thoughts and feelings, not our conclusions.
When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
Honesty is a good thing,
but it is not profitable
to its possessor unless
it is kept under control.
A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it's been set aside for an "It's all right if you don't get caught" philosophy.
Honesty is divine language.
Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud
A little candor never leaves me. It is what protects me.
Honesty is a suitor with piercing vision who isn't swayed by pretending and positioning.
Individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
honesty is hard work.
Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense
Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.
Honesty was its own kind of peace.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.
Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.
Candor is key - being willing to say what no one else is willing to say.
Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.
Honesty ... is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it ... there can be no trust. Widespread lying destroys the fabric of democratic societies, in which the necessary assumption is that people mostly tell the truth.
Honesty leads to peace.
Veracity is the heart of morality.
Truth itself is the best prudence.
Alas, respect for the truth compels perfect honesty
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.
Secrets and Malice
We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others.
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.
Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.
True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.
The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.
She was an open book. She had nothing to hide. She had an air about her. An air of conviction. She had lived and had no regrets. She was compulsively unapologetic about the choices that she had made.
THE BELIEF THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT LIE TO YOU. This is the main obstacle that Phil had to deal with in his encounter with Omar, who had already been vetted and whose veracity and good standing were unquestioned when Phil interviewed him.
But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme - in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.
The privacy of pride.
True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.
The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment.
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
Shameworthiness lies in the space between who we are and how we present ourselves to the world
Holiness sincerity, and faith.
Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.
Honesty is the voice that is acceptable in every matter.
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and