Intelligent Quotes

“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”

“Do not do that which you would not have known.”

“By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.”

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”

“I think track records are very important, If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”

“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”

“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”

“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”

“Approve not of him that commends all you say.”

“He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”