“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)
“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“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.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“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.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“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.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Approve not of him that commends all you say.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“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.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)