"Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress."
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"To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination."
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"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."
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"The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon."
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"The day is for honest men, the night for thieves."
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"My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another."
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"People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense."
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"'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him."
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"I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself. My ideas are my harlots."
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"Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along."
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"Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him."
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"When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be."
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"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
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"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
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"A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors."
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"All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another."
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
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"When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty."
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"If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."
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"Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know."
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