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Honesty |
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| “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.” |
| -- George Washington, American President |
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| "The elegance of honesty needs no
adornment." |
| -- Merry Browne |
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| "Honesty is the first chapter of the book
of wisdom." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
3rd US President, Democrat |
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“Integrity has no need of
rules.” |
| -- Albert Camus |
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| "The secret of life is honesty
and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. " |
| -- Julius Henry Marx
(1890-1977), [Groucho] American comedian, actor |
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| "Civilization has been thrust
upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty,
and generosity." |
| -- Luther Standing Bear, Oglala
Sioux Chief |
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| "The surest way to remain
poor is to be honest." |
| --
Napoleon Bonaparte
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| "Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a
stranger." |
| -- Franklin P. Jones |
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| "Ninety-eight of 100 of the
rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich." |
| --
Russell Herman Conwell
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the
results of his thoughts in clear form." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a
ridiculous one." |
| -- Voltaire
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| "A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." |
| -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British
statesman, prime minister |
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| "Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." |
| -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68),
African-American reverend, civil rights leader |
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| "There lives more faith in honest doubt,
believe me, than in half the creeds." |
| -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-92), [Lord] British
poet |
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| "Honesty and transparency make you
vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway." |
| -- Mother Teresa (1910-97), Albanian-born
Indian nun |
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| "We must make the world honest before we
can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best
policy." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
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| "Any fool can tell the truth, but it
requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well." |
| -- Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet,
author |
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| "Make yourself an honest man, and then you
may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world." |
| -- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) |
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| "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters
us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." |
| -- Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher,
writer |
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| "The biggest problem with dishonesty to
other people is that it is inevitable that the liar eventually
believes totally in his own lie." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "It is hard to believe that a man is
telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in
his place." |
| -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), American
editor |
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| "Integrity without knowledge is weak and
useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and
dreadful." |
| -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84), British writer |
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| "There is no worse lie than a truth
misunderstood by those who hear it." |
| -- William James (1842-1910), American
psychologist |
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| "It is possible that the scrupulously
honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and
dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned
without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time
be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save
character. For character is itself a fortune..." |
| -- Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) |
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