Behave Quote by Claud Cockburn

An honest man often becomes characterless getting a position of power.

— Mak_786

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of…

— Aristotle

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Who would appreciate such candor? No one. None of us really likes honesty. We prefer deception –but only when it is unabashedly flattering or…

— William Bonner

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he…

— Adam Smith

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

— Herbert Hoover

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support,…

— Noah Webster

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously…

— Raymond Chandler